On Tuesday 19 June 2007 15:44:17 Mikeal Rogers wrote: > Ecco Pro > - Why are we supporting this? They seem to have one developer left > and a fairly small user base.
One developer? The company that owns Ecco hasn't had any developers on it for a decade. There is a number of third-party utilities that are still maintained, mostly homebrew, and I know of one guy who has apparently been hacking the binary to extend it with additional functionality. There is a Perl library for interfacing with Ecco using the API it exposes through DDE (yes, it's that old) that could perhaps be used to inspect the structure its documents and transfer their contents into Chandler. But the mismatch in functionality is still too great for this to really be useful, IMHO. The only thing that makes sense to transfer is the calendar notebook. But this is just one small part of Ecco, which many users don't even use because they are already forced to use Outlook and other enterprise scheduling applications. I definitely think there is no point transferring its address book until there isn't an equivalent thing in Chandler, and especially not the rest of the data if there is no a) outlining/dependent items, and b) user-configurable attributes in table views. Davor _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Open Source Applications Foundation "Design" mailing list http://lists.osafoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/design
