Announcement : SynCE project
Ludovic LANGE
ludovic.lange at free.fr
Tue Jul 17 16:11:36 CDT 2001
Hello,
First of all sorry for the intrusion, but I think this may be of
interest for some of you.
SynCE project's ambitious goal is to provide a mean of synchronising
handhelds devices with a (desktop) computer.
By handheld, we mean any portable / embedded / PDA.... device, that
needs to synchronize its data with a less mobile computer.
(An exemple would be any PDA/PocketPC running Windows CE, or any PDA
running Linux, etc...)
The first step of this project is to provide a full (client & server)
implementation of Microsoft's RAPI protocol, which is the low-level
protocol used in ActiveSync synchronisation.
This will allow, when completed :
- a Windows CE device to communicate with any (non-Microsoft) computer,
- A Linux device to communicate with a Microsoft computer and benefits
from the existing tools,
- etc, etc...
The second step will be to provide a set of tools to synchronize data
with 'standard' open or closed source application : Mozilla, KMail, etc....
Right now, the project is in its early, early stages ( we don't even
have an alpha release ! ), but yet there are some bits that allow an
implementation of the client part of the RAPI protocol, to query
informations (registry, filesystem, databases,...) from a WindowsCE device.
One tool (DBBackup) allows a full dump of the databases of the device.
I won't interfere more with the list, and I invite all people interested
to have a look on the project page (
http://www.sourceforge.net/projetcs/synce &
http://synce.sourceforge.net ) and to subscribe to the mailing-list.
We currently are looking for developper, and for testers having mobile
devices still under Windows CE (PDA, PocketPC, etc...) and an unix-like
desktop environment.
Best regards,
Ludovic LANGE
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