Ted Leung wrote:
> Lack of a PDA story makes us a non-starter for a lot of people.   The
> problem is that there is probably no good cross platform way to do
> this.   It seems to me that the shortest path involves seeing if we
> could write import/export plugins that could talk to platform native
> services (such as Sync Services on OS X) which already know how to talk
> to PDAs.

There are some PDA products (well, PDA platforms) with significant
market share and we could target one or two popular ones to get started.
 Writing something for a platform specific service could also be an option.

A quick search on SyncML showed that there are 14 projects on
sourceforge.net that mention it. Google search gives many more.

Brian Skinner did some research on SyncML for OSAF a couple of years
ago: http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Projects/SyncML

I bet the situation has changed a lot since then.

> I didn't see ACL's in the infrastructure tenet.  Unless they are in
> there to support 0.7 sharing functionality (or the work needs to start
> now in order to be ready for 0.8), then I think we should defer.

I think it should be a conditional item: if Cosmo is going to get ACL in
time for Chandler 0.7 I think we should invest in it in Chandler as
well. I have an ACL library in Zanshin where the implementation is maybe
80% complete of what I think we would need for 0.7, which IMO basically
means an API that semi-automatically translates a standard ACL to
server-customized ACL and vice versa.

-- 
  Heikki Toivonen

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