Jppy: AddressDB support in python-jppy

[David A. Desrosiers]

On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 12:43 +0000, Nicholas Piper wrote:
> Plus; what is the gain? If you use a modern Palm, why would you want
> AddressDB? Unless you mean just to avoid the user having to configure
> jpilot(-sync) for one or the other? 

You should ALWAYS use Contacts on an OS5 Palm device, and just skip
using any of the extended fields. There is no indication that ALL
entries put into AddressDB via some third-party app that only
understands that db format, gets those records consumed back up into
ContactsDb-PAdd when it is launched. 

At best, any conduit that we write now, that uses AddressDB, should
write those records to ContactsDb-PAdd and delete AddressDB.pdb from the
device after a clean sync to ensure that those records get put in the
right place. 

I've seen far too many people using AddressDB directly, and notice that
Contacts and Address do not reflect the same information, or that some
changes are made in one are not reflected in the other. 

Best to avoid it, by making sure that they always use ContactsDb-PAdd
and never AddressDB on a device that supports the Contacts application.


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