From: Laurent Daudelin (Laurent_Daudelin_at_fanniemae.com)
Date: Wed Mar 24 2004 - 10:06:49 PST
On 24/03/04 13:03, "John Ruschmeyer" <jruschme_at_comcast.net> wrote:
>> From: Laurent Daudelin
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 12:38 PM
>> To: NewtonTalk
>> Subject: Re: [NTLK] NOS 1.x Applications...
>>
>> Sorry, but if you haven't already found out, you will realize that there
>> aren't that many applications for Newton OS 1.x. Most useful applications
>> were written for NOS 2.x, which had a lot more functionalities...
>
> Okay, I've got to ask something that's been bothering me for a while...
>
> Is there any good reason why no sync applications were ever written for the
> NOS 1.x systems?
>
> I look at the Names app and it seems about as robust as the Palm equivalent.
> I look at the Dates app and it seems complete enough.
> I look at the Soup formats and see that the extra fields in 2.x are just
> extensions of the what is in 1.x.
>
> So, back to my question, would it be technially feasible to write a version
> of, say, the nSync plugin which could run on a 1.x system and sync the
> subset of data supported by the platform?
The author of nSync is probably more qualified than me to answer that one
but I think it is using connection APIs that were introduced with NOS 2.x.
Do do that sort of things, you need more than application and soup format
capabilities. You need to be able to easily extract the information from the
Newton.
-Laurent.
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