Comments on: Quickies: S360, Treo in France, Backdrop GC v2.0
Handspring and SFR (Groupe Cegetel), a French provider of mobile communications services, have announced that they will jointly distribute the Treo line in France. It will be available at the beginning of April at retail stores throughout the country and Handspring's French webstore. -PR
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RE: You also have to buy TrapWeaver.
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RE: You also have to buy TrapWeaver.
RE: You also have to buy TrapWeaver.
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TrapWeaver clarification from the author
Although TrapWeaver is to Backdrop as HackMaster is to hacks, TrapWeaver and HackMaster are rather different. HackMaster was developed as one way for system patches to be installed without conflicting with each other. In order to take advantage of this protection, you have to write your patches in the form known as a hack. While your hack is then protected from conflicts with other hacks, it is still vulnerable to patches which have been installed by applications or drivers that were not written as hacks. These types of patches are also vulnerable to each other.
TrapWeaver protects patches similar to the way that HackMaster does, but it extends this protection over the entire system, so that all apps that patch traps, and not just hacks, are stabilized. Unlike HackMaster, though, TrapWeaver is not an extension manager; It does not install hacks or patches for you - it just sits there waiting to protect the patches that get installed by other programs.
If TrapWeaver seems to have disappeared off the radar, it's only because it gets updated very infrequently. System patching on Palm OS 4.1 is done exactly the same way as it was back on Palm OS 1.0, and the design of TrapWeaver has changed very little since its inital release in 1998. I would argue, however, that it's just as, if not more, important today, where, along with many more apps, there are more add-ons, such as springboard modules and keyboard drivers, which may install patches.
Even with Backdrop installed, your decision to purchase TrapWeaver should only be based on its own usefulness to you. If you don't feel that it improves the stability of your device when working with system patches, you don't have to register it. If you hardly ever use hacks or programs that install patches, and only have it on your device to run Backdrop, you don't have to register it. On the other hand, if you are using hacks or patches and can see a noticable reduction in system crashes, I humbly ask that you pay the shareware fee for the benefit you are receiving.
I would've liked to have written Backdrop to use the HackMaster protocol, as that would've saved me the effort that went into writing TrapWeaver, but unfortunately, it simply was not possible.
Josh Freeman
Twilight Edge Software
http://www.twilightedge.com
What about Missing Sync for Mac OS X??!!
How hard could it be, really? It's a subclassed USB driver, right?
In any case Markspace should get on the ball with an announcement: we Clie users are getting pretty antsy...
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You also have to buy TrapWeaver.
BAIT..... (and switch) :(