Re: [Evolution] Can I sync the Sharp Zaurus with Evolution?

[Rupert Heesom <raheesom bigfoot com>]

On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 17:39, Jim Meyer wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 08:51, Rupert Heesom wrote:
> > Being a Linux guy, I bought the Zaurus PDA.  However it's not clear to
> > me whether I can sync the Zaurus with Evolution.
> >
> > Does the Pilot conduit only work with Palm Pilot PDAs or with PDA
> > generally?  If only with the Palms, I'm surprised that a Linux PDA is
> > not supported in Evolution!!
>
> I, too, bought a Zaurus before I fully understood the issues involved;
> it's largely because of the fact that the Zaurus is a Linux box and not
> a PalmOS device that the sync'g system built up around Palm's standards
> doesn't work for the Zaurus. 

I would understand there being a difference between the synching of a
Palm OS device/ Windows CE/ etc and of a Linux device.

What I find incredible is that Evolution being a Linux program doesn't
support a Linux PDA.  I would think that Evolution should support any
Linux PDA BEFORE any Windows/Palm device (unless the Zaurus wasn't
available when Ximian's developers were working on a PDA conduit for
Evo).



> Meanwhile, there are a number of people who've worked out rudimentary
> scripts that munge the files between the two and work it all out; you
> might try searching Sourceforge and/or Freshmeat for "Zaurus". If you
> turn up something interesting, please inform the list as this question
> pops up about once per month. When last I looked the available products
> were all still heavy alpha and not useful enough that I felt I could
> rely upon them. =\

I may have a look and see if I can help any efforts to produce Zaurus
software, but my programming skills are VERY rusty!  However I'm NOT
going to give up my Zaurus just because it can't synch!