Re: vcard-integration for gnome

[Guido Schimmels <guido schimmels freenet de>]

Am 22.11.2003 04:06:50 schrieb(en) Rob Adams:
> Stop reinventing the wheel.  The contacts management infrastructure
> already exists in evolution.  Just refactor it into a common API that
> evolution itself could use to do its contacts.

I'm not reinventing anything. I was missing a stand-alone address-book  
in Gnome so I started to hack on one. It's written for ROX and I've  
made the offer to maintain a Gnome-HIG version in parallel. Because it  
is a tiny app, that would be feasible. I certainly won't refactor  
anyone's API. I wouldn't call a path variable an API. And I don't see  
why anything more complicated would be necessary for maintaining a  
stack of vcards. If that doesn't scale into a corporate setup with a  
huge data set, tell me about the problems it would raise and how this  
could be solved. Then I'll think again.

I sense hostility in your response. Maybe I'm wrong. Anyway, if my app  
is not perceived as a welcome addition then I'll just drop the idea.