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@@ -50,12 +50,11 @@ Goal of the project: Migrate mail, data and useful informations from
Windows to Mandrake Linux
Features:
-- Mail & mail account migration from Netscape, Outlook Express, Outlook
+- Mail & account migration from Netscape, Outlook Express, Outlook
and Eudora.
- Data migration from folders specified by the user.
- Migration will be in a format that all the programs can read. Need to
be determined.
-- Data from MS SQL Server migration
How it will work:
- The first step will be in the Mandrake First Time Wizard. The program
@@ -64,8 +63,8 @@ he want to transfer his account(s) in Linux. And if so, in which
program. After, the user will have to choose if he wants to transfer his
emails or not. And finally, he will have to tell if he wants to transfer
his data, and from where.
-- After, an application will be available on the desktop to allow the
-user to synchronise with his existing Windows partition.
+- After, configuration will be available thru the control panel to let the
+user choose if he wants to synchronize, what to migrate, etc.
- The two parts will be depending on a library with all the necessary
functions to allow migration. Only the ergonomics features will be
developped in the applications.
@@ -112,12 +111,8 @@ weeks for the embedded.
risks.
Technologies used:
-- Library: C or Perl (Perl is faster to develop. But if I loose time
-coding the existing C source in Perl, I will finish the library in C.)
-- Standalone interface: gtk (perl or C... will be determined soon)
+- Library: Perl
+- Standalone interface: gtk (perl-GTK)
- Mandrake First Time: using the same language than the program itself.
- Synchronizer: perl (to ease the development, we don't need big speed
here)
-
-Many things still need to be determined during the research timeframe.
-So a second version of this file will be out after the research week.