[maemo-developers] ANNOUNCE: eds-sync released as open-source

[From: Patrick Ohly]

On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 12:15 +0100, Ross Burton wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-06-02 at 16:53 +0200, Patrick Ohly wrote:
> > The drawback is that it difficult to synchronize the Maemo address book
> > with both Telepathy rosters and other SyncML servers: one has to take
> > care to always synchronize with Telepathy first, then with a SyncML
> > server. Otherwise SyncEvolution would remove contacts and thus lead to
> > an incomplete sync with eds-sync.
> 
> The abook UI will mark a contact as TODELETE with properties if there
> are IM fields which need to be removed from a roster first.  Going
> online so that this can happen will really remove the contact.  I should
> add some documentation to eds-sync to explain what the various field and
> contact states are.
> 
> Yes, syncing software should respect the contact states.  Going online
> before a sync will perform the pending actions, so that will reduce the
> severity of syncing contacts with state.

I suppose that only happens if eds-sync is installed and configured?
That's not the case on my device, so I would still have to check for
TODELETE and execute that?

If SyncEvolution was started to synchronize and the device goes online
for that, isn't there a race condition between eds-sync doing its magic
and SyncEvolution accessing the address book?

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