Jppy: comments to the current jppy

[Norbert Preining]

Hi Nicholas!

On Son, 21 Mai 2006, Nicholas Piper wrote:
> Sorry I've been away while you've been having these troubles. 

No problem...I have to thank you for the great work!

>  * It wasn't clear that jppy depends on libpisock 0.12, and that
>    jpilot MUST be also compiled against that version if you want to
>    use the jpilot plugin. (Now I've added a message to the wiki to say
>    this.)

Yup, I have installed all the pilot-link packages from
Debian/experimental which is 0.12.0-pre4.

Only one strange thing, but probably a bug in the packaging: The
pisock.py (and friends) are installed on Debian into /usr/lib/python/
where there are *not* found by jppy. I linked them into
/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/ and of you go.

Concerning jpilot: I have recompiled jpilot with pl 0.12 and have put
the debs onto my webspace for public perusal.

>  * svn was down. (Should be restored now.)

Thanks.

>  * build-depends wasn't complete. (I've now added libpisock-dev,
>    python-egenix-mx-base-dev, thanks.)

Did you add a versioned conflict on the packages in experimental,
together with the Binary Deps on these?

> > jppy cannot display category names with Umlauts (öäü) probably other
> > accented characters are also wrong.
> 
> I'll try look at this.

Thanks.

> > The reminder time is not correctly parsed: I have set a reminder on a
> > birthday in the COntactsDB to 7 days, but it was shown as 1 day in jppy.
> 
> Thanks for catching this. I use DateBk6 and HappyDays to manage my
> birthday information so never noticed! It's a bug in the GUI; fixed in
> r114.

Strange, I didn't mention it, but I believed that was an stupid
oversight of mine ;-).

BTW: with HappyDays/DateBk6: Does HappyDays save the apps into the
new database or into the old one? What happens if it saves it into the
old one, are they merged into the new db?

> I've uploaded 0.0.31-1 which includes the things I've mentioned as
> fixed.

Great, thanks, I will test drive again.

Do you have any idea wrt to the sync problem of the COntactsDB?

Best wishes

Norbert

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