Re: [Evolution-hackers] Is Evolution using libical for iCalendar and vCard?

[JP Rosevear <jpr ximian com>]

On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 14:03 -0500, Jeffrey Harris wrote:
> >>yes, we've got latest libical (from some months ago) integrated into
> >>evolution sources. We use it for calendar and tasks.
> > 
> > We'd like to move away from it though for the reasons you list above.
> 
> Have you had problems with the existing implementation?
> 
> I haven't found any projects out there that look like they're trying to 
> replace libical, and I haven't heard any (recent) complaints about 
> libical.  It's just odd that the code's numbered 0.2.4 and it hasn't 
> changed much lately.
> 
> Probably if the code was labeled 1.0.1, I'd be happy.  I'm guessing that 
> if Evolution is using it heavily, it's probably production quality code 
> at this point.  Is that true?

Well cvs had a serious problem converting times based on zones, i went
back to the routines we wrote the prior version for that.  The memory
management in the lib is awful with a temporary ring buffer hack.  In
general it basically works though.

-JP
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JP Rosevear <jpr ximian com>
Novell, Inc.