On Sun, 2004-04-18 at 14:04, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> 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.

That was just a made up example for my sermon.

Are you guys developing generic GUI interfaces for it that can be called
like "Open File" and "Save File" in Gnome - only for contacts,
calendars, tasks - {new,edit,delete}.  That would be sweet.

Where can I read more about eds?

Cheers,
Chris
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