[jp] Support for new PalmOS 5 features (for example, birthdays) in JPilot?

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  • Nicholas Piper nick-moongroup at nickpiper.co.uk
    Sat Dec 16 12:33:41 EST 2006

     

    James,
    
    On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, James Youngman wrote:
    
    > I recently upgraded from a Treo 600 to a Treo 650.  I'm happy with the
    > result, but have noticed that the new fields in the Contacts
    > application aren't supported.  For example, the Birthday field.  I
    > understand that the same goes for other fields like additional
    > address, but I haven't used those.
    
    > So, when I edited a contact entry in JPilot and resynced, the birthday
    > attribute was essentially deleted (since JPilot somehow didn't
    > preserve the unsupported fields of the updated record).
    
    This surprises me, I'd expect your jpilot to sync against the
    backwards-compatibility layer AddressDB, and persist any such fields.
    
    > Is there any plan to update JPilot to support the new fields?  If not,
    > is there any plan to have it warn the user that they would be about to
    > update a record containing unsupported fields?
    
    I believe Judd is well under way with a GUI to support these fields in
    jpilot proper. Judd originally wrote the backend support that Jppy
    uses (in pilot-link), in fact.
    
    > I saw the post at
    > http://www.jpilot.org/pipermail/jpilot/2006-February/005806.html but
    > that's really old now.  I was hoping the situation might have
    > progressed a bit.
    
    > I also understand that Jppy might fix this (web page at
    > http://jppy.zanu.org.uk/Wiki).  I didn't see any source packages for
    > it.  Is it essential to just pull a SVN source tree and build it that
    > way?
    
    Yeah, there is no source package (yet?). As others suggest, you should
    be able to build from an svn export easily enough. If you really do
    need a source package, then I'll see what I can organise. It'll need
    doing for when it goes into Debian anyway. (Unless you mean a
    source-rpm, which is unlikely to happen I'm afraid.)
    
     Nick
    
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