Re: icalendar file sync

Markus Meyer wrote:
> Hi Marco,
>
> the Mozilla Calendar plugin (plugins/sunbird_plugin), which you can
> download from CVS works directly with .ics files. It can use both local
> .ics files and files on a WebDAV server, and should be able to also read
> and write .ics files from other applications. It is not 100% finished
> yet, but I use it everyday and it seems to work fine. Of course you are
> welcome to test it out with other applications' .ics files and report
> your results.
>
> When the first version of OpenSync is released I will port this plugin
> to the OpenSync API. At this time it should also be discussed if there
> should be another name for the plugin, e.g. "ICS plugin". Armin
> suggested to create two versions of the plugin, one specific to Mozilla
> Calendar (which reads Mozilla Calendar's config files), and one for
> arbitrary ICS files (which must be configured manually). At the moment
> I'm more in favor of a single plugin which knows how to deal with
> multiple applications, but can optionally be configured manually.
>

i think there was a misunderstanding :)

I meant that it would be good to implement the ics file sync into a
library (like the bluetooth library of the irmc plugin) that can then be
accessed by other plugins.

So there would then be a mozilla plugin that reads the mozilla config
and uses this lib to sync the local ics file.

And then there would be a caldev plugin that pulls the ics file from a
webdav storage first and then syncs it.

> One reason why a generic .ics plugin isn't high priority is that it is
> always better to use a sync API than write to the .ics files directly.
> For example, Mozilla Calendar will not update its display when the
> underlying .ics file changes, you have to refresh it manually. Also,
> there are synchronisation issues with server-based .ics files (WebDAV),
> because Mozilla Calendar doesn't implement proper locking. So I see the
> Mozilla Calendar plugin (= .ics plugin) more as a workaround for
> applications that don't have a proper sync api yet.
>

i agree. but this cannot (and should not) be fixed in multisync.

the question is when the sunbird people are going to implement a proper
sync api. if it is in reasonable time there shouldnt be any need to
create a plugin that reads mozilla's configs.

>
> Markus
>
>
> Marco schrieb:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> Recently I found out, that lots of Calendar clients use an Ical file
>> as  storage. Or can at least work with this file type. I was wondering
>> why nobody is writing a general Ical Multisync plugin. like this we
>> can open that file with different calendar clients and don't have to
>> worry about the application.
>>
>> What do you think about this?
>>
>> Thanks for feedback
>>
>>
>> Marco
>>
>>
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