Re: Provider for Google Calendar & Google (calendar) sync

On 17.12.2012 14:52, STF wrote:
> What is "Provider for Google Calendar" based on?  I "GDATA Provider"
> page, it's simply stated as "utilizing Google Data Protocol".

It uses the Google Data (GData) Protocol:
https://developers.google.com/gdata/

> I suddenly asked this question is because I came across the news
> that a blog from Google
> (http://googleblog.blogspot.ca/2012/12/winter-cleaning.html) was
> talking about removing Google (calendar) sync.

They remove support for Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync protocol. Support
for Google Data Protocol is not dropped.

> If "Provider for Google Calendar" is based on Google (Calendar)
> sync, then it is necessary to write a statement on its home page to
> tell people that the addon will not work.

The Provider for Google Calendar extension will continue to work. But is
not required since years to synchronize Lightning with Google Calendar.
Google Calendar supports the CalDAV protocol that is supported in
Lightning by default. Actually CalDAV is the recommended protocol as
mentioned in the blog post you linked above.

/Stefan