Re: [OpenSync] Gnokii

[Armin Bauer]

On Sun, 2004-08-01 at 21:44, Pawel Kot wrote:
> On Sun, 1 Aug 2004, Armin Bauer wrote:
> 
> Hi Armin,
> 
> > these kind of devices anyways. There a lot of devices out there where
> > the database is pulled completly from the device, synced locally and
> > then pushed onto the device again.
> 
> Do you mean, the idea is: grab everything, sync locally, overwrite
> everything (perhaps doing: remove and write)? If so, I don't think it is a
> good idea. The mobile devices are not fast, or more important the
> connection (eg. with IrDA) is not fast, but have already quite large
> memory. Reading 1000 entries over IrDA from the Samsung phone takes few
> minutes. I'd rather think of the way to minimize the transfer.
> 

this is of course not the prefered way. But some devices do not support
another way to sync (Opie at the moment afaik) so we have to think of
that too while we design opensync. If there are other ways to sync a
device i will happily use those :)

> take care,
> pkot