Re: [Evolution-hackers] libgdata



On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 13:16 +0530, Chenthill wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-02-22 at 22:44 +0000, Philip Withnall wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I've been writing a full C library to access GData-based services, with
> > the aims of:
> > 
> > 1. rewriting Totem's YouTube plugin in C,
> > 2. providing a useful desktop-wide way to access Google services, and
> > 3. merging it with the libgdata and libgdata-google in e-d-s' tree, such
> > that e-d-s depends on a proper, external library for its Google Calendar
> > server backend.
> > 
> > I'm getting to the stage where it would be possible to merge with the
> > code in e-d-s' libgdata, but obviously this can only happen if the
> > authors of e-d-s' libgdata agree and think this is a good idea. If you
> > want to keep your libgdata separate and untouched, I'm happy to go along
> > with that, although it seems like a missed opportunity as regards
> > reducing code duplication across the desktop.
> > 
> > The code is currently on Github[1], with the beginnings of Google
> > Calendar support in a branch[2], but the eventual aim is to move it to
> > GNOME SVN (or git, or whatever) and move it into the desktop platform.
> EDS provides data primarily for mail,contacts, calendar, memos and
> tasks. It would be good to move the libgdata code from EDS into a
> separate project, say 'gdata-c' in order provide entire set of Google
> services. You can probably create a new project in svn.gnome.org for the
> same.

I'll take that as a "yes" then. :)
I'll continue hacking away at it, move it into GNOME SVN and see if I
can get a patch together to migrate e-d-s to the new library.

Regards,
Philip

> - Chenthill.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Philip Withnall
> > 
> > [1]: http://github.com/pwithnall/libgdata/tree/master
> > [2]: http://github.com/pwithnall/libgdata/tree/calendar
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