Re: [Evolution] Mad Idea... Bugzilla -> vCard?

[JP Rosevear <jpr ximian com>]

On 27 Feb 2001 10:44:30 -0500, Sejal Patel wrote:
> Not being a bugzilla expert here I might be talking out of my *ss but
> from the looks of it, couldn't a perl script be written that goes into
> the MySQL db and extracts the bugs and write them directly into the
> local/Tasks/tasks.ics file in the appropriate format.  Granted, direct
> file modification is not recommended by the average user but it really
> doesn't seem too complicated.  Why go through the effort of using CORBA
> (or ORBit) and making all kinds of modifications to evolution and/or
> bugzilla.  I don't know, I may have just misunderstood the question but
> it seems like a very simple perl script could do the task you requested
> and probably make your breakfast as well :)

You don't generally want to do this because if the wombat is running it
will not be notified of the changes.  We provide the C bindings in
cal-client.[hc] to make things easier.

-JP

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