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 > _______________________________________________ > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution -- Stuart Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Eureka IT Pty Ltd _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
