It’s been a while.
My plans of constantly updating this blog with the status of Migration Assistant have failed to date and interested parties have been left in the dark. This is an attempt at fixing that.
m-a is progressing nicely. Colin Watson has been an immense help. There were a few bumps in the road, specifically working with the Windows registry and XML data, but everything appears to be in place now for the 0.1 release, which I hope to push out shortly after the new d-i installer for Edgy is released.
Right now I’m mostly tying existing code together so that I can push my local copy which should successfully detect and import AIM, Yahoo, MSN, and Gaim all into Gaim. That is, the most recent copy of all of those programs. Once m-a is completely functional I’ll worry about older versions of the applications. While finding the applications and the usernames contained within them is pretty easy, finding and decoding the saved passwords is not. This is another thing I will have to go back to in the future.
There are a lot of things that I have not committed code for yet, things that I’ve found in my own research and that of the people commenting on the Wiki page (thanks!), with an example being handling fonts globally. Addressing these will happen after I have Email, IM, and Bookmarks importing.
July 11th, 2006 at 12:03 pm
Doesn’t this do kind of what you want just not built into a livecd install
http://www.versora.com/
July 11th, 2006 at 6:43 pm
Here’s where they differ:
- Versora is complete now. You can install it and it fully works.
- m-a is open source, Versora is not.
- As you mentioned, m-a is integrated into both the d-i and Ubiquity (LiveCD) installers.
- While Versora can import to KDE applications, m-a in its current form cannot. There just isn’t enough time in the SoC period for that, however I plan to add it in the future.
- m-a will support more targets.
- m-a will import from Linux, Mac, and Windows 98/XP and merge all of their settings into single locations (AIM, MSN, and Gaim from Windows and Gaim from Fedora all into Ubuntu Gaim).
- I have not played around with Versora, but I’ll also assume that it cannot merge items from different users into single accounts. m-a can.