Re: [Evolution-hackers] No CORBA interfaces with 1.5?

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 11:36 -0600, Patrick Gerzanics wrote:

> I was very surprised to find out that the CORBA interfaces that we utilize
> in 1.4.x versions of Evolution for synchronization have been removed in the
> 1.5 codebase.  Is there a different out-of-process way of interacting with
> Evolution that we can utilize instead, native or otherwise?  The 1.4
> interfaces were rather clunky, but they did work...

> Is CORBA support going to come back with 2.0 and the EDS?  From a brief look
> at the source code for the EDS, we see CORBA interfaces for interacting with
> calendar and contact lists directly, but none of the higher level code to
> interact with the folder list, etc.

All of this should be done directly with EDS now.

Although, your guess is as good as mine (and obviously as empty as mine)
as to how you get the folders lists for each component now, I see no idl
for it.

> We would hate to have to drop Evolution support for our synchronization
> server with the upcoming release of 1.5 and are trying to find a different
> approach for interacting with Evo.

It should be 'better' now since you only have to talk to eds and not the
gui part of the app.