[maemo-users] Status of SyncEvolution and PIM applications

[From: Ryan Pavlik]

hendrik at topoi.pooq.com wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 09:08:28AM +0200, Lars Persson Fink wrote:
>   
>> 2. What synchronization possibilities are available for them? What is
>> their respective status?
>> Erminig (http://maemo.org/downloads/product/erminig/) syncs GPE with
>> Google Calendar.
>>
>> OpenSync
>> (http://cleardefinition.com/page/Sync_Evolution_and_GPE_on_N800/) syncs
>> GPE with Evolution.
>>     
>
> GPE maintains its data base on a SQLite data base on my desktop 
> Debian machine.  I believe one of the distributed revisioning control 
> systems has a specific plugin for SQLite.  So maybe that would work.  
> That would give you an 2-way sync that remembers history.  Actually, I 
> suppose it would give you an n-way merge between as many GPE sites as 
> you want.
>
> -- hendrik
>   
The OpenSync instructions I listed there give you a 2-way sync.  About 
the only major thing I can find wrong with it, is that completed todo 
items are not synced, so they must be marked as completed manually on 
both the N800 and Evolution.  No messing with the SQLite datastore required.

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