OpenSync version for 8.04 (Re: Hardy: Time for sync project focus and here is how)

[Chris Cheney]

On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 14:06 -0400, Martin Owens wrote:
> There is movement to pick up on hardware support.
> 
> > They also integrated synce (Windows Mobile) and barry (Bluebarry)
> > hardware support.  The nice thing is that at least synce doesn't need
> > any configuration from the opensync side
> 
> For instance information about any syncable devices should go into hal
> and I have udev and hal rules for blackberries and windows mobile 5/6
> to add such information. Unfortunately getting all the different
> parties to work together is quite a challenge so progress towards
> something plug and play will be slow going but in the end I think we
> can have something that is plug and sync.
> 
> > Well, opensync-0.22 is neither particularly broken nor particularly
> > outdated (it is the current stable version, and the version recommended
> > by the opensync authors for packaging by distributions currently).
> 
> 0.19 is the current version in the repos, 0.22 isn't.
> 
> Best Regards, Martin Owens

Doesn't synce still require kernel patches to make it work? I have
worked with the Debian maintainer of synce a bit when I have had the
time to get stuff updated in Debian to try to make the update in Ubuntu
less painful, but it looks like some parts need to be fixed in userspace
so it doesn't require the kernel changes, which from what I gather
aren't going to be accepted in the upstream kernel.

BTW - If there is going to be a UDS session about syncing I am very
interested in attending. I have a WM6 phone that I want to get working
out of the box on Ubuntu 8.10.

Thanks,

Chris