Re: [Evolution-hackers] Newbie question

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

Depends a bit on what you're after.

If you want another stand-alone module (i.e. a new frontend type), then you just need to implement a new evolution component.

If you want to implement a new backend for the addressbook, then you'd want to do another backend in evolution-data-server.  evolution/addressbook/backends/ldap/e-book-backend-ldap.c is a fairly simple example of a backend for evolution-data-server for contacts data.

For email evolution/camel/providers/* is where you'd start plugging things in.

Yes i'm pointing to the sourcecode, its about the only documentation (and certainly the only up to date) we have.

On Mon, 2004-06-28 at 14:47 +1000, Devraj Mukherjee wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I am a newbie at Ximian/Novell Evolution development. I am interested in
> writing an addon for data exchange based on some research that has been
> carried out at Eternity Technologies.
>
> We are writing plugins for OS X address book, MS Outlook and of course
> Evolution for the Linux world. This we believe will test out the data
> exchange theories that are being developed here.
>
> I am wondering where I can find some resources that will get me started
> on module/addon development of Evolution.
>
> Devraj

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Michael Zucchi <notzed ximian com> Novell's Evolution and Free Software Developer