Re: [Evolution-hackers] Terrible hack to allow read-only access to secure Google Calendars

[Benjamin Kahn <xkahn zoned net>]

On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 00:20 +0530, Srinivasa Ragavan wrote:
> 
> Thanks for your patch. But we have a summer of code student, Ebby
> Wiselyn working on a Google calendar backend for Evolution/EDS.
> 
> He had great successes recently
> (http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-soc-list/2007-August/msg00035.html)
> 
> Some screen shots at http://edsgcal.wordpress.com/screenshots-2/
> 
> It would be a clean approach and would provide  a read-write access to
> Google calendars and will have a better sync mechanisms.
> 
> I was hoping to add this to 2.12, but we realized that it is not
> feasible and is now targeted for 2.14. 
> 
> So I really don't want to take your patch.
> 
Yup.  I don't recommend that my patch be applied:

> > Probably other problems.  :)  I don't recommend this be applied to
> > Evolution, but I do think it might be an interesting jumping off 
> > point for someone else.  For the moment, it solves my problem.  

And I know about the other project.  And it'll be great -- next year
when I can use it.  For now, this gets me close to what I need, so I
thought others might be interested as well.