Re: [Evolution] Re: [Evolution-hackers] PIM application suite

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo ximian com>]

On Sun, 2004-04-18 at 13:29 -0400, Christopher Ness wrote:
> Why should the calendar program need to know how a contact record is
> stored in the Contact DB?  It shouldn't, it calls the interface with the
> contacts ID and it is returned the record in the agreed upon way based
> on the programming interface Specs.  Some people call this "contract
> programing" I believe.
that is exactly what Evolution does. There is an API for accessing
calendar, contacts, etc, and any app that wants to access them uses
that. There's no need to have to know DB formats and stuff like that.

cheers