[OGo-Evolution] OGo - evolution connector uploaded in CVS

[Robert de Geus]

Hi Helge,
On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 11:43 +0200, Helge Hess wrote:
> On Aug 17, 2006, at 08:33, Robert de Geus wrote:
> > Dapper has a lib dependency for evolution-plugin installed with  
> > version
> > 2.6, the current connector looks for the 2.8 version.
> 
> Could you elaborate? Is 2.6 and 2.8 API compatible? Will the  
> connector work for both?

I guess so, we are now testing in our office on 2.6, but it is also in
our plan to do an upstream merge a.s.a.p. to the main evolution tree.
Shreyas could give more information on this.

> How different is the 2.4 and 2.6 API? Is it viable to produce a 2.4  
> variant?

> Would be good if we could produce a connector which does not only  
> work against the bleeding edge ;-) Only if its possible w/o a lot of  
> work of course ...
> 
It is not in our plan to do this. I think it is a matter of trying to
compile it in 2.4, it is not part of our testing scheme. We control
which versions runs on the systems of our users and we plan to upgrade
as soon as this is possible. The reason is that the gnome desktop is
stable, but that evolution is still our problem child.
> 
> > In preferences, ad an new account and select opengroupware.org as a
> > driver.
> 
> Hm. You based your work on the Noodle trunk branch? I've tried to  
> replace all "opengroupware" references with "GroupDAV" in my branch.  
> While I don't mind OGo publicity, I really think we should make this  
> a "GroupDAV" connector.
> 
I don't know what you mean, I am not programming, Shreyas is. Are you
refering to the naming of objects? We are however trying to make an
implementation of groupdav for opengroupware. Our users are going to be
using both the web interface and evolution, so we want as many features
available in evolution as in opengroupware as well as a data consistency
between the two client interfaces. 

So maybe you could explain us where are the differences between
opengroupware.org and groupdav... We might be able to take some issues
in account. It would be very nice indeed if this implementation is fully
groupdav compliant, but I hope you also understand that we need
something that works and that our users understand.

Because we are only testing against opengroupware we wont find any
issues concerning other server implementations.

> Will need to setup some Ubuntu ... ;-)
> 
I guess so :), but you could always to give it a try to compile it for
sarge, I just checked but the stable is still evolution 2.04 and
unstable and testing is evolution 2.6. We are also running 2.6 in our
office so there should be no problem doing that. 

greetings,
Robert


> Greets,
>    Helge
> -- 
> Helge Hess
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