Jppy: AddressDB support in python-jppy

[Nicholas Piper]

David,

On Tue, 13 Feb 2007, David A. Desrosiers wrote:

> 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. 

Do you mean 'that uses ContactsDB-PAdd' ? Anything that uses AddressDB
probably only does so because it is old code, *or* using a device
which is older.

> 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.
 
Nick 

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