Possible Enhancements to J-Pilot

This post has moved to eklausmeier.goip.de/blog/2013/02-27-enhancements-to-j-pilot.

Here are some thoughts about possible enhancements for J-Pilot.

1. Convert pdb’s and pc3’s to SQLite. This makes it easier to analyze data according some criteria, e.g., find how many addresses have the same telephone numbers, how may entries in datebook contain the same substring, etc.
2. Convert and transform pdb’s and pc3’s to Google GData (shut down or deprecated). The Google id, which is returned after transmitting data, is then possibly stored in pdb/pc3.
3. Use mmap() instead of all its fread() and malloc()‘s inside pilot-link and J-Pilot.
4. When J-Pilot searches for strings in the case-insensitive case, then it copies all elements and uses malloc() for each element, see routine jp_strstr(). Instead, just use a home-brewed strstr() which takes care of case.
5. Provide ncurses interfaces instead of Gtk. See for example calcurse.
6. When searching for strings and then jumping to the result, it just shows the record, but it does not directly position the cursor to the string where it was found. In particular for memos this is a small nuisance.

jpilot-dump + jpilot-merge

This post has moved to eklausmeier.goip.de/blog/2013/02-17-jpilot-dump.

There is a lesser known command, jpilot-dump, to print portions of J-Pilot files.

Here is an example to print category, first name, last name:

jpilot-dump -A +A"%C %f %l" | less

And here is another command: jpilot-merge.