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Why ... so .... hard? It's those missing GUIDs

Great article by SyncEvolution prime mover Patrick Ohly on why synchronizing PIMs is so hard.

http://moblin.org/documentation/syncevolution/pim-data-synchronization-why-it-so-hard

Ohly runs down five or six reasons why it's hard to figure out (for example) which components of two similar address records should take precedence, and explains how SyncEvolution works to solve some of these problems. Turns out many of the difficulties arise from the lack of generally-meaningful unique identifiers for record components.

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Why ... so .... hard?

...no comment.

So, do we just keep talking off topic in these forums until our admins hear our demands pleas for a better forum?

If it's like the blackberry forums, all our posts will get deleted in a day or two.

If it's like the blackberry forums, all our posts will get deleted in a day or two. with these crappy forum$ as well?










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