Synchronizing Google Contacts gets better with API v2
The zindus addon now uses version 2 of the Google Contacts API, which enables two new features:
* include/ignore of Suggested Contacts; and
* duplicate contacts.
Where Version 1 of Google’s Contacts API required users to de-duplicate contacts before establishing sync, Version 2 has no such requirement.
This allows the zindus addon to establish sync with Google immediately. The dialog that enforced Google’s no-duplicate rule remains only to fix empty contacts. Contact de-duplication can happen later or not at all.
These features are currently in testing, and will be in the 0.8.6 release.
Congratulations to the engineering talent at Google - great work!
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January 23rd, 2009 at 3:59 am
Leni,
Any chance of a quick code update to account for TBird 3.0b2pre? When I try to use Zindus with b2pre it says not compatible.
E
January 23rd, 2009 at 4:29 am
@E: Sorry, tb3 pre-releases aren’t supported, only the latest alpha/beta. The basic problem is that if the addon got updated to suit today’s pre-release it would break all the earlier tb3 pre-releases. So folk who hadn’t updated their thunderbird to the very latest tb3 pre-release would assume a bug in the addon.
If you really want to experiment with it on a pre-release there are two tweaks:
* unzip the .xpi and edit install.rdf changing <em:maxVersion> from 3.0b1 to 3.0b2 (for example) then zip it up again, and
* tweak a preference as described under the “thunderbird 3″ text at the roadmap
For a one-off sync that might work ok as of today (untested). But be warned: since the addressbook API is under active development, the odds that addon will break between now and the next beta are good!
January 24th, 2009 at 1:50 am
I appreciate your forbearance. It was silly of me to ask really. But thank you very much for the info! I will test just for fun.
March 3rd, 2009 at 8:59 am
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