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

[Rodney Dawes <dobey ximian com>]

You should read the archives. :)

We are doing this for 2.0, for the wombat, and providing stable api and
abi for applications to use. I am working on integrating gnomemeeting
with this, as well as writing a full-on gnome IM client that will use
the evolution stuff, and integrate with as much as possible.

-- dobey

On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 10:47, Andrew Sobala wrote:
> 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,