Re: [Evolution] Palms and Evolution

["Patrick O'Callaghan" <poc usb ve>]

On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 12:16 +0100, J.L. Blom wrote:
> I would like to second that.
> For more than a year I try to sync my PDA (HP1900 series) with
> evolution. It's very important to me as I now have to sync by hand
> (which is in the daily practice not done!). Opensync is a clumsy
> mismatch of demons, which won't compile correctly on a 64-bit system. I
> cannot imagine that it's so difficult to read and write data to an
> external device (even Microsoft has it accomplished!). What's the
> difference between a PDA ( or any other external device) or an external
> CD, HD or whatever?

A PDA is another computer, not simply an external memory. You need to
talk to it using its own low-level protocol (which may not be fully
documented), and probably a higher-level synch protocol. Currently it's
a mess; some combinations of PDA and demon work on some platforms and
not on others, user interfaces are crude, there's the whole hotplugging
can of worms, etc. etc. These things work on Windows because a) the
low-level APIs are not a moving target and b) the manufacturers make
sure it all works because it's economically important to them.

I have some hope that the Kitchensync project on KDE will eventually
sort this out. See
http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/12/07/1629211&from=rss

poc