On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 9:39 AM, Simon Budig <simon@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Mark (wolfmane@xxxxxxxxx) wrote: >> There are two basic facts of common scenarios that you continue to ignore. >> 1) Sync conduits frequently don't exist. >> 2) Import & Export are easy to implement, sync is hard. > > You keep ignoring that we are talking about concepts, not about > (possibly not) existing solutions. No doubt that sync is very > non-trivial and current implementations are lacking in a lot of aspects, > maybe even that the current implementations of syncing are not a > superset of currently not implemented csv exports, but this does not > make the point invalid that the sync *concept* is a superset of the > im-/export *concept*. > > Bye, > Simon > -- > simon@xxxxxxxx You couldn't have that more backward. You are talking about an actual implementation of sync that happens to include some basic import/export functionality. Those are not concepts, those are concrete implementations. In actual fact, the "concept" of sync in no way includes the "concept" of import/export. In your mind, the conceptual goal of your particular sync app includes import/export functionality, but that is a concept of a particular app, and is not in any way the definition of the actual ideas of sync or import/export. Mark _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
