Re: pilot-link v0.11 "Ocean's Eleven" release out

[Chris Tooley <ctooley amoa org>]

Is the pilot-link site down or am I going to the wrong place?

www.pilot-link.org


On Fri, 2002-07-12 at 14:56, David A. Desrosiers wrote:
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> 	Well, we've finally done it, version 0.11 of pilot-link is out!
> 
> 	First, I'd like to thank everyone who has helped out with this
> release, getting it out the door, and for everyone who has contributed
> patches, fixes, new conduits, or generally given us a hand keeping the
> release on track. JP Rosevear for his incredible work on USB support, and
> library-level rewrites and fixes, Angus Ainslie for his new conduits, both
> John Marshalls, Anish Mistry for his FreeBSD patches, Kevin Buckley for his
> XML work, and dozens of others.
> 
> 	Keep up the great work!
> 
> 	So much has changed in this release, it's hard to keep track of it
> all, but here's the high points:
> 
> 	New Conduits
> 	------------
> 	- read-palmpix, allows you to read images created from a Kodak
> 	  PalmPix camera (Angus Ainslie and John Marshall)
> 
> 	- read-notepad, write Notepad application information to images
> 	  (Angus Ainslie)
> 
> 	- pi-getromtoken, extract various hardware token information from
> 	  your Palm device, such as serial number information (Owen
> 	  Stenseth)
> 
> 	- pilot-datebook, eventual replacement for install-datebook,
> 	  read/write to Datebook data, including Windows .dba file formats
> 
> 	Many of the existing conduits have been cleaned up and "flattened",
> 	so they are easier to use, smaller, and redundant code has been
> 	pushed out of the way, into the library where it belonged.
> 
> 	New Library Support
> 	-------------------
> 	- Complete USB device support for Sony and Palm USB-based handheld
> 	  devices, faster code than in previous pre-release versions.
> 
> 	- Support for passworded devices (OS4 and higher)
> 	- Extensive debug logging (see doc/README.debugging)
> 	- Complete DLP argument parsing rewrite
> 	- DLP regression testing
> 
> 	There's a lot under the hood too, lots of code is changing to
> 	support a more modular conduit development model, which will
> 	eventually get rolled up into using Kevin Buckley's XML work and
> 	allow more robust line-by-line error reporting.
> 
> 	Download It
> 	-----------
> 	You can find the releases on the pilot-link.org website, as well as
> 	the file signatures, which should deter some of the rogue copies of
> 	pilot-link that have been floating around, confusing users.
> 
> 	http://www.pilot-link.org/source/pilot-link-0.11.0.tar.gz
> 	http://www.pilot-link.org/source/pilot-link-0.11.0.tar.gz.asc
> 
> 	http://www.pilot-link.org/source/pilot-link-0.11.0.tar.bz2
> 	http://www.pilot-link.org/source/pilot-link-0.11.0.tar.bz2.asc
> 
> 	IRC Channel
> 	-----------
> 	If you'd like to talk to the users and developers of pilot-link in
> 	real-time, or report a bug, or just hang out in general, you can
> 	find us in the pilot-link irc channel on irc.pilot-link.org, in
> 	the channel #pilot-link.
> 
> 	What is Coming
> 	--------------
> 	Some things in the works for the later releases of pilot-link
> 	include some of the following:
> 
> 	- XML and CSV input and output path for all conduits
> 	- ZLib support for network HotSync to compress data
> 	- pilot-link Software Development Kit (SDK)
> 	- pilot-link Conduit Development Kit (CDK)
> 	- FreeBSD support (functional, need to work out licensing issues)
> 	- OSX support (device layer currently missing)
> 
> 	What is Missing
> 	---------------
> 	Porters are wanted to help with the following updates:
> 		- Win32 support for USB devices
> 		- OS/2 support for USB devices
> 		- OSX support for native devices
> 
> 	- Network HotSync from Linux to Windows currently isn't working
> 	  properly, but it's high on our list to figure out and fix.
> 
> 	- There are many missing manpages currently, volunteers wanted
> 	- USB device matrix; We need to know what devices work on what port
> 	  (Sony devices problematic)
> 
> 	- "Foreign" device testers; Dana device, Handspring Treo testers
> 
> 
> 
> d.
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