[missing-sync-palmos-dev-talk] Re: Requests

[Florent Pillet]

Actually I got a Mach-O conduit working. It took some bridging (a lot 
actually) and wrapping into a CFM bundle, but it's absolutely feasible. 
I think that as long as you support the existing CFM conduits, that'll 
be fine with me.

Florent

On 23 avr. 04, at 04:37, Scott Gruby wrote:

>> 7. Backward compatibility with this mac cocoa framework so it can be 
>> used with the the Palm Hotsync Manager. I've toyed around with this 
>> bridge idea myself so I'm pretty sure it can be done. The Mac OS will 
>> hide the implementation details so as long as the dlls are bundles. 
>> This would require a Shared Lib bundle from palm for the API (as 
>> opposed to a static library) and some glue to load and manage the 
>> entry points to this shared library. A pass through CFM conduit to 
>> explicitly load the Mach 0 dll and provide CFM entry points. I guess 
>> you would also need an abstraction layer to hide who is making the 
>> connection to the palm (Missing Sync or Conduit Manager/Hotsync 
>> Manager)
>>
>
> We have no plans on doing this (no incentive). Our application will 
> handle CFM conduits as well as MachO conduits. However, the MachO 
> conduits will not be compatible with HotSync as HotSync doesn't 
> support it.
>
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