RE: Best of both worlds

["Bharat Mediratta" <bharat@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> >I was syncing (2 steps now : 1 PilotMGR, 2 StarOffice) this morning, and
> >found myself wondering : If pilot MGR is somehow a "Sun" product, and it
>
> Condition 1 of your if fails - pilotmgr is not in any way a "Sun" product.

Too true.  It was developed at Sun on Sun hardware so technically Sun owns
it, but it was never sanctioned in any way.  I just spent a lot of my spare
time working on it.

> > handles conduits in the most sophisticated way, would 'nt it be possible
>
> Condition 2 fails - it's unlikely that the pilotmgr conduit handling is
> "the most sophisticated way".

That's true.  But you could certainly write a conduit to sync the Pilot with
StarOffice using PilotManager.

> > to "merge" it with StarOffice which has the bells & whistles of a sharp
> > interface (thinking about the planner here), thus making the better
> > Pilot/Desktop combination ever ?
>
> Yet, even with the above two failures in conditions, I still wonder myself
> if it would not be possible for Sun to consider integrating Pilotmgr
> handling...

I'm sure it's possible.  However, the probable sticking point (and I say
probable since I haven't run StarOffice so I don't know what tech it uses)
is that PilotManager is in Perl and StarOffice is not.  When I was at Sun
two years ago I used to get regular calls from JavaSoft luminaries asking
me to port PM to Java, which I declined to do.

> > Or am I missing something ? Seems to me that bharat is working next door
> > to the StarOffice team now !
>
> I thought that Bharat had moved from Sun?

Yep, I'm gone.  But Alan is still there...and the PilotManager conduit spec
is an open book so there are lots of people who could make this happen if
motivated...

-Bharat

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