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List:       kde-pim
Subject:    Re: [Kde-pim] Project proposal
From:       Adriaan de Groot <adridg () cs ! kun ! nl>
Date:       2004-07-21 14:38:39
Message-ID: 200407211638.40298.adridg () cs ! kun ! nl
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Hi Armin, [cc'ed to both fronts on which I received this message]

On Wednesday 21 July 2004 11:44, Armin Bauer wrote:
> So i would like to propose to start a project to create a standardized
> sync framework which could then be used by all projects. This way a sync
> conduit would have to be written only once and would immediately be
> available to all projects. The idea is similar the the Netscape API
> (NAPI) which provides plugins to netscape, mozilla and opera.

On the Palm front, there are three main contenders, [gjk]pilot, all of which 
work with the same underlying library for communications and data marshalling 
(pilot-link). The different efforts have historically been somewhat seperate, 
but we feel that in the medium term we have to cooperate to unify the kinds 
of plugins each application uses, and unify some of the syncing logic and 
device polling that we need. As such, we feel that it's more valuable to 
standardize in our corner of the world - where at least we have a defined API 
already, &c. -  _before_ venturing out intro even more grandiose schemes and 
creating new APIs. We'll watch, of course, what happens elsewhere.

-- 
   "On top of that [watching KDE CVS] is interesting in a perverse 
    way, like watching sausage get made. By very smart people." - dkite
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