Re: [Evolution-hackers] Evolution Future Roadmap

[JP Rosevear <jpr novell com>]

On Sat, 2004-07-24 at 21:17 +0800, Not Zed wrote:
> > How are attachments going to be handled? Using a URI in the iCalendar,
> > or base64-encoded inline or something? In case of the latter, I assume
> > whatever libical implementation there is will be async, or at least
> > have an async API, so opening up a calendar item with 100MB powerpoint
> > attachment doesn't take forever.
> If its like anything else in the calendar, it'll just load it into
> memory, and make it slow while its at it! :) 

libical basically just boils down to the parser, it has nothing to do
with loading events.  In 1.5 you can have threaded, asynchronous
backends (we just don't currently have any).

-JP
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JP Rosevear <jpr novell com>
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