FUR

(FUSE uses libRAPI)

  • What it is?
  • What it does?
  • What does it need?
  • Where can i find it?
  • How do i make it work?
  • What does work now?
  • What does not?
  • How can i contact you?
  • Why should i?
  • And who are you, anyway?
  • People i'd like to thank:


    The FUSE and Synce Project creators, developers and mantainers. Simply: no FUSE/Synce => no FUR. If you want to contribute to FUR you can try to contribute to those 2 projects in a way or another. 

    Matthias Gruenewald who contributed all the new code which made the 0.4.3 release of FUR possible, adding the time information to the files. Thank you for the patch, and my apologies for the delay between your submission and my new release.

    Genix, the first person that contacted me about FUR for his feedback on the software and help in both bug fixing and configure scripts (he also made a SRPM package for FUR for the ALT-linux distribution: the page is in russian, bug links are in English).

    Lazlo who helped me with a useful bug report that crashed FUR when 2 files, different only in case where in the same directory (i still wonder how this is possible in a case indifferent environment like Windows CE...).

    Clemens R. who reported me a bug that prevented a file to be moved over another.

    LunohoD who probably tried quite hard to install FUR with synce 0.10.0 after i told him that it wasn't possible and proved me wrong... :-)

    Last but not least, All the people that counted an hit on the FUR page on freshmeat (mostly me, im afraid... :-)), especially those who subscribed (not me), thus giving me the feeling i wasn't wasting my time.

    Latest News

    28/05/2007

    FUR is apparently working with Synce 0.10.0 without the need of patches of special compilations of sorts: this also means WM5 support.

    The new version of the Synce is out (thanks to Genix for waking me up...) and all the calls that FUR needs in order to work are now included (along with a lot of other calls FUR might make good use of, if only i would work on it...): a big thank you to the people of the Synce Project.

    This means that you can use the 0.10.0 version of the Synce project in order to run FUR without patching, recompiling or anything, or at least this is what people told to me (thanks to LunohoD)...

    Not all news are good: one of the reason why  FUR was almost abandonware  last year is that since i have a new pocket PC (an HP rx1950) i have not been able to use the Synce tools (though i didn't tried very hard and it could be all my fault, im not complaining). This means that im not able to run my own software (FUR relies on a working Synce connection), which is very bad for me and that i cannot work on FUR as well (which is bad for you...).

    However i will try to carry on the developing using the HP2100 of my father or my old and almost broken HP1910 tough im very overworked and not being able to make any use of FUR for myself is quite a put off... Don't expect new features in the short term... :-p.

    If someone has any news about connecting an rx1950 with synce in any way (is wireless connection feasible? AFAIK only USB is supported), this would be of great help.

    19/11/2006

    Thank to northx im working on FUR again and i've noticed how unclear my site is (If 90% of people that read my site cannot find the informations they need to compile and install maybe it's my fault :-) ).

    Therefore im reorganizing my site, removing the obsolete informations and adding the latest news in the proper sections: i don't like to write documentation very much, but i have vowed not to let the "Latest News" section grow too much without integrating the infos in the site.

    The old FUR page will be available here as everlasting testament of my laziness.

    I browsed the Synce Project page and it seems the developers did a lot of work since the last time i checked (Thank you!), some of which will directly benefit FUR once i will have done the homework; the same can be said about Fuse: FUR uses it through the API version 22 though the current is 26.

    The near term roadmap for FUR, after those considerations is:

  • Improve BSD compatibility (since both FUSE and librapi are).
  • Update FUR to the latest version of librapi (0.9.3).
  • Check if there would be any benefit in using the latest Fuse Api version.
  • Implement the new librapi functionality (especially CeGetFileTime and CeSetFileTime).
  • Test it on my WM5 ipaq.
  • I cannot foresee how long i will take to carry out those tasks: im still overworked and still doens't have very much time to dedicate to this project, only 2 things i can promise:

  • Im on it now.
  • My English will always be this good :-)

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