Re: Migrating PocketPC contacts to OPIE

Hello Erik,

Wednesday, January 17, 2007, 9:07:49 PM, you wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 07:44:20PM +0200, Paul Sokolovsky wrote:
>> 1. Use generic sync framework, like OpenSync.
>> 2. Try to find existing adhoc convertor.
>> 3. Try to write own adhoc convertor.

> I am surprised you did not try an intermediate format like vcard and
> ical. Using both you could take care of contacts, calendar and todos.

> At least that is what I did when I migrated from PalmOS to Opie (back in
> the day).

  Cool, I was sure quite a few people did that already, that's why
it's so surprising there's no howto.

> The vcard and ical formats are well supported by scripting languages and
> usually you can coax things like jpilot and Opie to either export or
> import these formats.

  The issue here should be obvious: vcard or ical is "well supported",
but hardly someone knows *how* well ;-). Working with exact native
formats always have benefit that one can do "lossless" conversion with
expected outcome.

> I noticed that you didnot employ synce at all. Any reason?

  Well, I described my reasoning in detail for those who may want to
undergo process of finding acceptable migration solution too (which is
of course subjective matter). Summing up my issues with SynCE: 1) there's
no port, or any compatibility info, for Windows; 2) it just adds
superfluous complexity and lacks flexibility.

>> 1. After I looked more closely at OPIE Contacts' import capabilities, I
>> confirmed that it handles VCard format pretty well, and the way to
>> generalize the conversion util is to add VCard support to it. This
>> will work (somehow) for GPE too.

> Ah, further study. I see.

> E




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