SPUG:DB two-way synchronization

[Jay Scherrer]

Is this the beginning of the rhetorical Internet street corner?
"Will script Perl for food".
Jay
On Thursday 15 May 2003 03:50 pm, Michael R. Wolf wrote:
> I have two sources of contact data (name, phone, email, etc), let's
> call them A and B.  There's no clear "source", since updates can occur
> in either place.  I'd like to do a bi-directional sync.
>
> Is there a DBI module or algorithm that would allow this? If not, do
> you know of a pointer to an algorithm for doing this? (Did Edsger
> Dijkstra tackle such problems?)
>
> It's the same problem as a PDA sync'ing to a PC for calendar, note,
> email, or contact information. I know it's not an easy theoretical
> algorithm, but at least it's one that's been solved. I'd like to build
> my solution on top of that work rather than reinvent it.
>
> A and B are not just arbitrary names:
>   A is for ACT!, a contact manager that should be ODBC-accessible
>   B is for BBDB, emacs' Big Brother Data Base
>
> I know the DBD::ODBC module exists. (I'll have to come up to speed on
> it. [1])
>
> I'll have to build a DBD::application::emacs::BBDB interface, either
> directly to its lisp-like textual file representation, or through the
> behaviors coded in emacs' elisp as an API. Anyone done something
> similar? Ideas? It's no small feat, I'd imagine. [2]
>
> Thanks,
> Michael Wolf
>
> P.S. Have food, will barter....
>
> [1] Anyone interested in trading a lunch or coffee for a JIT-training
> on how to dig into an unknown ODBC interface?
>
> [2] Anyone in trading dinner for a down-n-dirty co-development/design
> session to architect or create this DBI module?

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