On Mon, 2001-11-19 at 12:10, David A. Desrosiers wrote: > 4.) USB support can only come last, after the top three above are > working (and 1, 2, and 3 are fairly short-term tasks). The > reason for this, is that there exists a very tight coupling of > the protocols in pilot-link currently, and those have to be > separated a bit, a little surgery if you will, so we can choose > which ones we want based on the device or connection we're > making at the time. If we don't have a clean build system > (autoconf) and a good way to pass options to the binaries > (-usb, -serial, etc.), this would also be a nightmare to > implement. > > Did that all make sense? So that's where it stands today. We're > working on things, even though we may not be very vocal here in the list, > things are progressing. The delicate part is that we can't just gut the > backend libpisock protocol layering without breaking things, so we have to > be careful about how we do this so we can still maintain > backward-compatibility with the 0.9.5 build in the interim as the library > matures.
I've been reading the code today and it looks like the dlp/padp layers are reasonably separated. The main cruft revolves around the slp/serial layers since the read process shuffles around state information and each layer fiddles/relies on the state information. I'm trying to come up with a design that will disengage the two layers, leaving the slp layer to do simple reads and writes to the serial (and other possible) layers. > Once we get all that working, the rest of the CSV/XML/vCAL/vCard > stuff should be fairly easy to implement, and the good part about cleaning > up the protocol and collapsing the binaries with more readable code, is that > a "conduit SDK" can be written to wrap around the code that becomes 0.9.6 > and beyond. Well, we basically already have this interface in the pi-sync.h interface that I wrote. -JP -- -- ======================================================================= JP Rosevear [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ximian Inc. http://www.ximian.com _______________________________________________ Pilot-unix mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hcirisc.cs.binghamton.edu/mailman/listinfo/pilot-unix
