Re: [Evolution-hackers] importers?

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 15:42 -0500, JP Rosevear wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 01:50, Not Zed wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> > 
> > I saw JP mention something about importers being a bitch, whats the
> > status here?  irc keeps booting me and everyone's asleep anyway.
> 
> They were a forgotten feature that I mentioned at the meeting on
> Tuesday.  I resurrected importer stuff in the shell and also the
> calendar/task importing, the addressbook importing lives again now with
> some help from Chris and so the mailer ones are the only thing
> remaining.
> 
> > Is this another forgotten feature or something?  Should we re-do them as
> > modules rather than having so much bonobo glue in the middle, or what?
> 
> Probably keeping them the same for development speed's sake is best. 

Thats what we said last time too, and yet after several full days of
effort to get them working again back then, we're back at square one all
over again.

> The calendar, tasks and addressbook ones weren't too bad to resurrect. 
> I think the mail intelligent importers will be a bit annoying because
> they use the other importers (which no longer take a uri from the shell)
> and the old Mailer.idl.   The selection of the mail folder may also be
> annoying because we might have to construct a tree view of non-vfolders

vfolders?  why do they matter?

> to get a selection from the user (the importers have to create a control
> for selecting a folder now because the shell can't do it for them).

well the importers will have to be part of the mailer.  which makes all
that bonobo glue kinda pointless.