On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 10:48, Jeff Waugh wrote: > <quote who="Mark McLoughlin"> > > > I don't follow. > > I was using the "but distros are going to ship Evo anyway, so we can bank on > that to satisfy the e-d-s relevance concerns, particularly about 2.8 DP > inclusion". But, it was wrong-headed thinking. > > > At the moment, the two go hand in hand as far as I'm concerned. Simple > > as that. > > Yes, now that I have my head screwed on straight, I totally agree. ;-) But I don't. evo-data-server is a general desktop contact management/calendaring API. It doesn't need evolution to be useful. If someone wants to store people's RSS blogs for an RSS aggregator, for example, e-d-s is the logical place to do that. Ditto for a whole load of interesting programs that need to attach data to a person or date. The question of whether to include e-d-s in the desktop is not whether it's needed to satisfy an evolution dependency, but whether it is * The right answer for a contact mangement/calendaring API, and * Whether we *want* a contact management/calendaring API in GNOME. [Additionally, evolution is ubiquitous anyway, so anything using these APIs will integrate nicely if a distribution happens to include it. Extra benefit.] I think the answer to both is yes, and I'm in favour of adding e-d-s to the desktop. -- Andrew Sobala <aes gnome org>
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