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From: "Jon Trowbridge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On 18 Jun 2001 13:44:06 -0300, Sergio A. Kessler wrote:
> > interoperability and accesibility, that are the keys...
> > (sure, is not that easy)
>
> One thing to keep in mind is that Evolution provides CORBA interfaces
> and helper libraries to allow you to manipulate the addressbook. So the
> analogy with MS's .doc format isn't really accurate...
word also provides COM servers for manipulate a .doc
is that a solution for abiword ? nope...
maybe the analogy isn't good, but I don't see pine supporting corba
anytime soon, on the contrary I easily see it supporting a vcard
based format.
> it will always be
> possible to write scripts that access and/or manipulate the addressbook
> contents, irregardless of what format Evolution is using to store it.
yup, but trough evolution...
you are doing the contrary of what standards bodies (like w3c) are doing,
ie. they define a format, leaving the access implementation to authors
I'm dreaming about a "there should be only one" addressbook, the
state of afairs is that every MUA implement their own addressbook,
this is not good...
and I repeat, evolution is in a strong position to define a de facto
standard for addressbook format, but that format can't be a binary
format because it broke interoperability and accesibility for
others emails programs...
/sergio
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