[Evolution-hackers] Splitting out the address book from evolution?

[Andrew Sobala <aes gnome org>]

Something that I think would be really useful for GNOME would be to have
a "global" address book that can be used by evolution, gnomemeeting, IM
clients, etc.

The main requirements would be a) to be able to be accessed from any
application, and b) for an application to be able to add a "custom
field" for anything that isn't supported already by the address book.

Would it be hard to split out the address book from evolution, or is the
code deeply entwined with evolution internals? Is there the will in the
evolution devel community to help with this, or do you want to keep the
addressbook internal to evo for some reason?

Also, has this been talked about before :-) ?

Many thanks,

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Andrew Sobala <aes gnome org>

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