On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 12:38 PM, George Farris <farrisg@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 18:09 +0100, Graham Cobb wrote: >> This has been added to gpe-contacts (by Florian Boor), it is currently in the >> code in SVN (and hence in my daily builds, for the GPE team to test). It >> will be in the new release of GPE for Maemo which I hope to have available >> for testing around the end of this month. >> > > Are you going to have an option for it to talk to EDS, I sure hope so. > >From what I'm learning about the Evolution Data Server, it *could* be a good thing, but only if you don't forget to add significant import & export (and possibly external sync) functionality. The exact implementation of the behind-the-scenes database is basically irrelevant, so long as it's flexible and powerful enough to store everything needed. Sharing a single database within the device can potentially save a lot of time, effort, and disk space. However, if it's done without consideration for the ability to share *all* the data with other devices & OSs, it's not much of an improvement. The fundamental issue is that it's still up to the app developers to deal with import, export & sync. The EDS doesn't do any of that. If gpe-contacts doesn't already use EDS, it seems like it would be a *major* rewrite to accommodate it, and probably not worth the effort. Mark _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
