Re: [Evolution] Advice needed for Exchange-like calendaring

[Stuart Guthrie <sfg eurekait com>]

On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 03:39, Dan Winship wrote:
> > A question or two for the list. I´m designing a Calendar Access
Protocol
> > server under the JiCal banner. Does anyone know how hard it will be
to
> > plug in a ´CAP´ (http://www.calsch.org) Client to Evo?

I´d not be too discouraged by the traffic level. There is a lot of
interested parties. The OSS world needs this particular Open Standard.
There are all sorts of projects out there writing calendar interfaces
between products in a non-standard way.  The CAP standard will fly I
think. Particularly if a good client/server model exists for Evolution
and Outlook.

> Given some CAP code, plugging it in to Evolution wouldn't be too hard.
> But the traffic on ietf-calendar hasn't been very encouraging lately.
> (Eg, the argument about whether or not the client has to explicitly
> create free/busy information in order for another client to be able to
> query it.) I'm not sure it's going to be usable any time soon. :-/
>
> > I´ve already had talks with a German OS project who think the
Outlook
> > plugin is not so bad.
>
> Plugging a *mail* backend into Outlook is pretty well documented, but
> doing calendar stuff requires all sorts of undocumented hacks. But I'm
> sure *someone* will eventually write a CAP plugin for it.

Yes it will probably be pretty icky but that´s probably good as the Evo
one will be smooth. At least it provides a consistency for corporates to
move over to the big L slowly.Of course there is still the exchange
plugin as the other method.

> > I think Lotus Notes are moving to get CAP client/server working
> > for their offering (as main chatter on the calsch list is from
there).
> Not sure. I think the next big release of Notes+Domino is too soon to
> plausibly include CAP support, so it may be a while still. Likewise
for
> Exchange, since Exchange 2003 doesn't have CAP support. (AFAICT from
> their web sites, neither Lotus nor Microsoft have announced any
official
> plans to support CAP yet.)

Maybe its just insurance but the most vocal/interested person on the
calsch list is from IBM.

> Novell's web site says that Groupwise and NetMail (their new server)
> will both eventually support CAP (and there's been a lot of Novell
> activity on the ietf-calendar list too). Sun, Oracle, and Meetingmaker
> say their servers will too, though I don't think I've seen anyone from
> Sun or Oracle on the list.
>
> -- Dan
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Stuart Guthrie <sfg eurekait com>
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