Re: [Evolution-hackers] Syncing with Evolution, reloading calendar without linking to gnome libs?

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo ximian com>]

On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 15:11 +0200, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote:
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> On Tuesday,  04. May 2004 14:36, you wrote:
> > On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 12:51 +0200, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote:
> > > So, my question now is, how can I make evolution reload the calendar
> > > without having to link to all the gnome / evolution libraries, which is
> > > clearly out of option for kpilot ?
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> > if you are going to modify evolution's calendar files, you'd better do
> > it via the evolution API. 
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> Hmm, this is clearrly out of scope for a conduit that's supposed to sync with 
> an ics file (or more generally, any KCal::Calendar derived class, like kde's 
> resource calendar consisting of data from several different places) ... Too 
> bad, kpilot then won't be able to sync to evolution :-((
> 
> It might be of interest for kitchensync, though, or for a calendar and 
> contacts resource for KDE's resource framework. 
> How does the evolution API work exactly? And what's the communication 
> protocol? I hope we don't have to link to all gnome libraries just to be able 
> to read the evolution calendar/addressbook... 
> Is there any introduction and further documentation available? 
> 
http://www.gnome.org/projects/evolution/devdoc.shtml

the protocol used is CORBA, and the dependencies should be a few ones,
like ORBit, libbonobo, libxml, glib and soup. You don't need any of the
UI libraries at all.

cheers