On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 03:14 -0700, Alex Lancaster wrote: > >>>>> "NM" == Nigel Metheringham writes: > > NM> Palm support seems to be especially cursed in FC4. There are some > NM> really low level problems - something that appears to be > NM> kernel/udev/hotplug (or quite likely a timing related bug in that > NM> set) that prevents even the command line pilot-xfer tools working > NM> in many cases (which completely destroys the possibility of > NM> gnome-pilot working). > > NM> Then gnome-pilot has a batch of bugs including timing related on > NM> ttyUSB, broken API wrt to pilot-link (which it links to), broken > NM> conduits and broken evolution integration. > > NM> Someone really really doesn't like this stuff :-/ > > I downgraded to using pilot-link-0.11.8 on FC4 for this reason (I > don't even try gnome-pilot let alone evolution integration), and seems > to be working OK. I'll file some bugs on bugzilla.redhat.com on the > current pilot-link-0.12.0-0.pre3.0.fc4.1 included in FC4 when I get > time. Interestingly, the pilot-link maintainer, David Desrosiers, has > specifically admonished distributions not to include any of pilot-link > 0.12 pre-test versions and wait until the official 0.12.0 release: > > See the first announcement of pilot-link-0.12-pre1: > > http://www.pilot-link.org/node/129 > > and a recent posting here: > > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-pilot-list/2005-June/msg00011.html > > I know Fedora is supposed to be bleeding edge, but is it wise to > include a version in the distro that it's maintainer specifically > suggests not to? I'm curious to know the reasoning behind including > this version in FC4. I think we made a mistake with this. I'm sorry for the pain this is causing everybody. I've been attempting to fix gnome-pilot (and evolution's conduits); tomorrow's rawhide should have a much better version of both packages, including numerous patches by Mark G Adams, who is currently my hero. I'll report back when I've got more information -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
