[GroupDAV] Funambol 6.0 and other connector updates

[Mathew McBride]

Hello all,

Some have emailed me to ask what will be happening with regards to Funambol
6.0, which was released last week after some time in beta.
At the moment I'm focusing on fixing bugs in the current connector series.
Since the sync source API's are forwards and backwards compatible not a lot
of work needs to be done (most likely none at all!), but since Funambol 6.0
is deployed differently on Tomcat, the external libraries may need to be
placed back within the module package. If anyone wishes to try right now,
I'd like to hear how you go on. I'll try and attack it with the next few
days.
 
Anyway, there is a new connector, 1838, which has fixes for all day events,
particularly in Symbian S60, at
http://comalies.citadel.org/~matt/funambol/latest/1838/ .
Included in the package are two synclets for Funambol which can be installed
to modify the data being sent/received within Funambol's data pipeline
(pre/post connector) - the two scripts included will insert an X-attribute
to tell Symbian's calendar of all day events. I haven't tested this release
(1838) as much as previous ones, however.

Some, myself included, have had sporadic problems with the contacts
syncsource. If you end up with an exception during sync, please send me a
logfile. 

(Its my intention that contacts sync source will be completely rewritten to
support multiple GroupDAV sources and allow some pre-processing similar to
Funambols synclets to combat problems with behavior among different clients.
The calendar sources will be modified with multi-source support as well)