Re: Current status (birthday supported?)

[Matt Davey <mcdavey mrao cam ac uk>]

Hi Oon-Ee,

> On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 5:16 PM, Matt Davey <mcdavey mrao cam ac uk> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 08:11 +0800, Oon-Ee Ng wrote:
> >> Thanks Matt,
> >>
> >> A follow-up question, I'd assume that supporting birthdays is a matter
> >> of upgrading the vCard version supported (I'm assuming that's the
> >> internal format)?
> >
> > No, supporting birthdays is a matter of rewriting the
> > "address-conduit.c" conduit to use the pilot-link "Contacts" API instead
> > of the original "Address" API.  The PalmOS 5 release introduced Contacts
> > and changed the API, and database format, from the original AddressDB
> > format.
> >
> > Matt
> 
> Ah, much more involved then. Nothing in gnome-pilot processes
> ContactsDB, then? Jpilot uses ContactsDB as well as AddressDB
> (selectable), I've taken a look at their structures, but have no idea
> on gnome-pilot internals. I suppose both projects are basically in
> maintenance mode due to PalmOS deprecation, though?

That's pretty much right.  I'm happy to integrate contributed code, but
am unlikely to code this myself.

Matt