[tomboy-list] C clone of Tomboy for Maemo

[Cornelius Hald]

On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 07:02 -0700, Sandy Armstrong wrote:
> I did not realize Mono performance was so bad on Maemo; that's a shame. 
>   Sounds like your work could be very helpful to some.

The runtime performance is really good but the startup time and memory
consumption are a bit high. Of course the maemo port of tomboy is quite
old and probably with a newer version of tomboy and mono it might look
better. Also AOT compilation might help, but it didn't work for me.

> An XML Namespace URI does not have to be a valid URL, so that is not 
> supposed to be a link, really.  If you look in our mailing list archives 
> or in bugzilla, you'll see that some people have worked on a XML schema 
> which might be helpful...I have yet to review it.

You're right of course about the URLs. My fault. I'll look for the XML
schema, it could be very useful for testing my implementation. 

> No, we are not documenting that at this time.  There has never been a 
> need because there has never been another consumer of the note files 
> that cared.  That being said, new versions usually just add features, so 
> a parser of 0.1 notes would be able to read 0.3 notes just fine, it just 
> wouldn't see the note tags and a couple of other things.

Ok, then I'll just try to keep my eyes open and watch for changes. If
ever someone else will use it, I surely get feedback if something
breaks ;)

> Well, to be honest I don't think that's a very good name. :-)  But I'm 
> not great with names, either.  I'll let you know if anything comes to 
> mind.  I have no problem with you using "Conboy"...I'll have to think if 
> it would be a problem for me if you used "CTomboy" or something like that.

Well, yea... I'll sleep over it, but I'm not sure if I can come up with
something better :) I think something like "CTomboy" is not really an
option, because people might think that it is was made by you (the
Tomboy-Guys) and that it is 100% compatible. But I think that my program
will be more something like Tomboy-Lite (feature-wise). For example I'm
not sure if there will ever be support for plug-ins etc.

> > 4) Are there other things I should be aware of? Especially concerning
> > the file format?
> 
> Add-ins may add undocumented XML tags or attributes.  Keep an eye out 
> for that sort of thing.

I will. Thank you very much for your input. I very much appreciate
that :)

Cheers!
Conny