Re: GnomeCard conduit for gnome-pilot

[brian moseley <ix maz org>]

On Wed, 24 Nov 1999 martin@bluebox.eu.org wrote:

> either way will make the clients independent of the
> fileformat used, which will be usefull when changing
> this, which is planned for the gnome-calender AFAIK.
> (vcalender->icalender)  also it will be easier to
> support multiple file formats.

have you looked at the icalendar format? its considerably
more complex than 'key: value'. if this is the interface you
choose, then every client will need to be able to parse the
value string for parameter names and values and for the
property value, unfold long lines, decode encoded property
values, etc.