Tuesday, February 18, 2003

Good news for NewtSync... I managed to get the license for Andrew Patrikalakis' Newton Connection Library changed to BSD-style licensing. This means that I can include it in NewtSync's framework and use it to connect to the Dock directly (provided I can get serial to work). Victor Rehorst is working on changing the license for UnixNPI as well, which will be immensely helpful. What does this mean to NewtSync users? Well, for starters it means you will be able to sync directly from the Dock on the Newton. Syncing will also be significantly faster, and I should be able to transfer binary data such as packages and pictures. So I imagine the releases will slow a bit while I'm working on incorporating this; there is quite a bit of work to do (and the plug-in API may change significantly) but the payoff is huge.
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