Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 9th Sep 2009 19:11 UTC
PDAs, Cellphones, Wireless iTunes 9 was released today, and the big question on everyone's mind (ahum) was: will it break webOS sync once again? Well, yes, it does. In other words, webOS devices can no longer sync with iTunes. Luckily, the webOS 1.2 update is right around the corner, so big chance it'll be fixed quickly.
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RE: Need a standard
by theosib on Wed 9th Sep 2009 20:45 UTC in reply to "Need a standard"
theosib
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2006-03-02

Sqlite may be open source, but that doesn't mean the format is easy to parse, and you can't fit sqlite into every device. Besides, we need a format that's easier to read than to write, since you'll read it a lot more than you'll write it. We need something simple, compact (but not TOO compact), and something which you can parse with a few lines of Perl.

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RE[2]: Need a standard
by cb_osn on Wed 9th Sep 2009 23:58 in reply to "RE: Need a standard"
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2006-02-26

Sqlite may be open source, but that doesn't mean the format is easy to parse, and you can't fit sqlite into every device. Besides, we need a format that's easier to read than to write, since you'll read it a lot more than you'll write it. We need something simple, compact (but not TOO compact), and something which you can parse with a few lines of Perl.

I can't think of any case where a Perl interpreter would be smaller or more efficient than Sqlite on an embedded device.

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RE[3]: Need a standard
by theosib on Thu 10th Sep 2009 13:28 in reply to "RE[2]: Need a standard"
theosib Member since:
2006-03-02

No, of course, not. But that wasn't my point. But if it takes 10 lines of Perl, we should get it to work in maybe 100 or so lines of C, which when compiled would CERTAINLY be smaller than either a Perl interpreter or an Sqlite server.

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