Re: [Evolution-hackers] EDS or EPLUGIN

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 09:13 +0100, Ron Smits wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 09:10 +0800, Not Zed wrote:
> > 
> > eplugins are for extending the front-end application.  eds is an
> > abstracted api to backend services.
> > 
> > so, no i guess.
>
> Right, so if one would add a totally new server type to evolution you
> would need to add it to eds and use eplugins to handle the front end
> stuff?
Depends on what the server type is/what it does.

If it is email, then it would go into camel.  If it was addressbook or calendar data, it would go into eds.  If it was something else it would be a new shell component (i.e. neither of above).

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Michael Zucchi <notzed ximian com> "Evolution - Mostly Practiced By Dumb People" Novell's Evolution and Free Software Developer