Sync Conduit Implementation about palmrs

[knickish]

https://github.com/knickish/hotsync_conduit_rs started work on this in a new repo, for eventual inclusion (or dependence, not sure yet) here. The unsafe bindings are written for condmgr.dll and syncmgr.dll, working on making a safe/sane wrapper for now and trying to figure out how to test it.

[knickish]

It looks like it's a fairly accessible C-ish API, with a handful of structs and ~15 function implementations that would need to be wrapped.

[u1f408]

I did want to reimplement HotSync, yeah - my aim was to use this from Linux, touching none of the original Palm Desktop (or pilot-link) stuff. I just haven't had the time 😭

Having a SyncManager.dll wrapper as a first step sounds alright to me - sounds like I'll have to track down my copy of the PalmOS Programming Bible and have a read of the conduit sections!

[knickish]

Sounds good, I'll start trying to figure that out then as I have time

[knickish]

Ok, got this syncmgr wrapper working on top of your database code. Not super sure where to start on either integrating it here or REing the protocol to make an actual rust implementation yet.

[u1f408]

I think what I might do here is move the half-finished sync stuff out of this repo, making this repo just contain the palmrs-database lib + the CLI dump utils / tests / etc (and if there's any other "common" stuff in future, it can go in here) - and then link to your conduit implementation (and the new repo with my half-finished stuff) from the README.

I'm hoping that I'll have time in the next ~month to work on REing the protocol - I know that Dmitry Grinberg has RE'd at least some of the HotSync protocol for one of his projects, so there might be some useful information there, but I haven't looked too closely.

[knickish]

Sure, that sounds great. Planning to extend my wrapper version enough to get things off the handheld too, then will probably quit as there's not much more to do there. Will see where I can help with the RE one, although it's not something I've done before