[SyncEvolution] Sync with SailFish OS via Bluetooth

[deloptes]

Patrick Ohly wrote:

> On Tue, 2016-11-15 at 23:04 +0100, deloptes wrote:
>> Patrick Ohly wrote:
>> > During all that time, SyncEvolution has had a functional SyncML
>> > implementation and backends for the PIM storage in MeeGo...
>> 
>> Here is what they said:
>> 
>> Sync via Bluetooth isn't well supported at the moment. We allow importing
>> contacts from another device, and adding capability to import calendars
>> via Bluetooth is work-in-progress (see
>> https://git.merproject.org/mer-core/buteo-sync-plugins/merge_requests/1
>> and MER#1222 for that), but true synchronisation via Bluetooth is
>> significantly more difficult to achieve with the current stack.
> 
> Reminds me of the discussions we had about comparing Bueto with
> SyncEvolution. SyncEvolution always had a strong focus on actually
> making syncing work (and yes, that gets ugly sometimes), while Buteo was
> a "cleanly designed" framework which avoided doing any of the hard work
> and delegated that to "plugins". In other words, it didn't actually
> solve the problems. Too late to say "told you so" now, there's literally
> no-one left from those discussions and it wouldn't matter anyway.
> 
>> I guess I have to wait, or get involved. I asked why not use
>> syncevolution? but still it would need a backend ... I don't know when
>> I'll be able to have a look into the sdk and mer
> 
> I don't know how much current PIM storage in SailFish OS has diverged
> from MeeGo; for MeeGo, kcalextended and qtcontacts were the relevant
> backends.
> 

I'll light a candle for my N9 every night and say a prayer for it :)
so that it may live long and be healthy :) until Sailfish gets usable. I
hope I'll find some time soon to setup an environment to have a look into
the sdk.

For now I don't see a way to progress there, but thank you for the hints.

regards

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