Re: improving the Evolution addressbook conduit

[Alex Lancaster <alexl users sourceforge net>]

>>>>> "MD" == Matt Davey  writes:

MD> I'm beginning to take a look at the Evolution conduits, and have
MD> started with the addressbook conduit.

MD> I'm aiming to start by fixing some data corruption bugs that have
MD> annoyed me for a while.  An early win is fixing the 'other' field
MD> bug: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=547223 There are
MD> several other bugs that need fixing and lead to data rot.  Once
MD> that is out of the way I'll look at adding support for ContactsDB
MD> and the 'new' fields such as birthdays and photos.  Support for
MD> ContactsDB will require some limited new API on the gnome-pilot
MD> side.

Won't this require some changes on the pilot-link level to talk to
ContactsDB?  I seem to recall from a posting by David Desrosiers some
time back that there was some initial work done in pilot-link but that
is currently incomplete.  

It would be best that, where it makes sense to do so, code that is
developed to parse ContactsDB could be pushed into pilot-link (as the
lower level in the stack).  That way applications outside the
gnome-pilot universe such as jpilot and the Perl bindings for
pilot-link (I use these to sync my Treo with BBDB via syncbbdb) could
also benefit.

Of course I'm assuming that sync via the Evolution conduits uses at
least some of the code in pilot-link, and I haven't looked at the code
to know how it is actually currently designed/implemented, so I'm
probably way off base here.


Alex