Re: [Evolution-hackers] importers?

[Aaron Weber <aaron ximian com>]

Doh, right, freeze... /me futures and wishlists... ;>
a.

On Sat, 2004-02-07 at 22:38, Not Zed wrote:
> hey aaron, we were really just talking about re-enabling the old
> functionality.  since w'ere supposedly in feature freeze.
> 
> On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 10:53 -0500, Aaron Weber wrote:
> > Here's what I know bothers the people who I spoke to at LinuxWorld,
> > among bugs; all of these I think are already in bugzilla:
> > 
> > Individual file imports of mbox files copied from Eudora fail all too
> > often, although I don't know why; I think possibly because of Windows
> > vs. Linux newlines?
> > 
> > We should have a recursive import of a directory, so that you can
> > import from, say, Eudora or KMail or a tree of MBox files without
> > doing it one by one. We support single file imports, doing a treeful
> > should be easy.
> > 
> > Addressbook imports, especially from csv files, are basically useless.
> > Csv2vcard is not reliable, and isn't in the GUI; it needs to be done
> > right and done in a gui-accessible way.
> > 
> > I can't imagine that any of this is easy, especially parts involving
> > Outlook and transferring files across Windows/Linux partitions. But I
> > don't know the technical details, just the stuff people complain
> > about. :)
> > 
> > a.
> > 
> > On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 14:50 +0800, 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.
> > > 
> > > 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?
> > > 
> > >  Michael
> > > 
> > > 
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