Palmpilot sync problems with both kpilot, jpilot, pilot-sync, ...

[Rodolfo Alcázar]

On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 13:08 -0400, Robert Locke wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 11:49 -0400, Steven W. Orr wrote:
> > On Thursday, Aug 4th 2005 at 08:24 -0400, quoth Rodolfo Alcázar:
> > 
> > =>Palm pilot, by the moment, cannot sync apparently due to a bug on
> > =>udev-0.58-1, FC4, which causes a huge delay on ttyUSB creation, moment
> > =>by when palm is not polling for sync anymore. You can test it. See 
> > =>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=161058
> > =>seems duplicate of:
> > =>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=158809
> > =>Isnt that your problem? 
> > The bug is not in udev. There is a problem in pilot-link in FC4. The 
> > problem also manifests in palms over a fixed serial port.
> Actually, it's a bit more complicated than all that.  I believe this has
> been discussed before, so a search of the archives would probably find
> additional information, but let me summarize my take on it....
> 
> The developer of pilot-link has been putting together a new version
> dubbed 0.12, but this new version has a new API.  Now pilot-link
> provides the low-level routines for several high level packages, like
> jpilot, gnome-pilot, etc.  While the developers of those other pieces
> are aware of the new 0.12 API, most are still just starting to re-write
> their code to utilize it, and do not generally have a timeline.  Also,
> the developer of pilot-link has been pretty emphatic that no
> distribution should be shipping 0.12 of his code yet, until everyone has
> ample time to "catch up".
> 
> So, I suppose the mistake, if you want to call it that, is that the
> packagers for Fedora Core 4, saw the new version of pilot-link and since
> we're the bleeding edge, decided to include it on the distribution.  Of
> course, this then breaks all the packages that run on top of it.
> 
Thanks, now its crystal. Will try updates-testing gnome-pilot this
weekend. Have a nice weekend.

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