Features
OpenSync has an ambitious goal to solve all possible PIM synchronization needs. Regardless of its current shortcomings, its feature list is extensive:
- Cross-platform software, implemented in C programming language
- Plugin based
- Uses threads
- Two or more members in one synchronization (group)
- Capabilities detection
- Object merger
- Object type filtering
- Supported formats are defined in external XML file
- Multiple graphical user interfaces for different environments
- Command-line user interface
- Bindings to other languages (Python)
- vCard 2.1, 3.0 support
- vEvent 1.0, 2.0 support
- vNote 1.1 support
- vTodo 1.0, 2.0 support
- SyncML 1.1 and partial SyncML 1.2, WBXML support
- IrMC support
- Bluetooth support
- USB support
- HTTP support
- LDAP support
- Only SyncML server support
(Note: vEvent 1.0 is the same as vCalendar 1.0, and vEvent 2.0 is the same as vCalendar 2.0 or iCalendar, which all are supported as well.)
OpenSync synchronization takes place in groups which can have two or more different type of members supporting different set of object attributes. Development version also has a sync engine that is able to merge attributes from same object changed on different endpoints.
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