[SyncEvolution] Backend as Mysql

[Patrick Ohly]

On Thu, 2014-01-02 at 14:55 +0530, Sachin Gupta wrote:
> Thanks Patrick.
> 
> Could you please elaborate more on
> "but not very useful, because the conversion is not very complete."
> 
> What conversion you are referring to?

The conversion of the internal representation to and from the demo
sqlite schema. Several properties are not getting stored.

> PS: We have dropped the idea of using MySQL as a backend and plan to
> extend sqlite to calenders also.

That's certainly a useful programming exercise. I am not sure whether
it's suitable for a production system, though, if that's what you intend
to achieve.

If you need a database as storage instead of EDS or the plain files,
then you might also want to look at the sqlite support in libsynthesis.
See chapter "12. <server type="sql"/"odbc">, <client type="sql"/"odbc">:
SQL/ODBC based Server or Client Config" in
libsynthesis/doc/SySync_config_reference.pdf

It's probably going to be more complete and better tested.

SyncEvolution does not use that mode, it always runs as server or client
type='plugin'. It should be possible to change that.

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