id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
868	Provide Init and Finalize Format Plugins interfaces	dgollub	bricks	"There are various use cases where a init and finalize function for format plugin could be useful.
One example is to pre-allocate or parse certain data which is required for conversion once. And pass a custom void *userdata to each format plugin call.

Related discussion on opensync-devel mailing list:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.misc.opensync.devel/3055"	task	closed	high	0.38	OpenSync	0.37	critical	fixed