I would think that pluggable backends would be the way to go, from and end user point-of-view at least. Not sure how this would work from a programming perspective, but I would definitely prefer it as a user. Dunc
2009/8/5 Bertrand Rousseau <[email protected]> > Coudn't we add backends by using plugins? That would be an interesting > feature. > > I guess we always thought of providing GTG with built-in backends for > sync with several task managers, but we never thought as them as being > activable plugins. Having some backends as default feature is nice, > but what if it starts to add weird dependencies? Plugin backends could > have some advantages. > > Actually, I don't know what the best is either. > > Bertrand > > On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 5:07 PM, Lionel Dricot<[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi luca, > > > > > > There's one thing that makes me unconfortable in your proposition : we > > originally planned backends for tasks to be completely differents than > > plugins. > > > > I believe that supporting multiple backends has to be thought carefully. > > If you read the localfile.py backend, you will see that backends were > > really abstracted and are generic. > > > > Actually, GTG already support multiple backends, there's simply no UI for > > them and some issue likes "how to assign a given task to one of your > > backend" and some other oddities. > > > > But maybe I'm wrong and adding multiple backends via plugin is the way to > go. > > > > So, the wise way would be to wait that multi-backends support is properly > > finished. But is being wise always needed ? > > > > I really don't know > > > > > > Lionel > > > >> Developers^3, hi. > >> Seeing Paulo plugins-engine, I've decided to write a plugin for > >> synchronizing gtg with Remember the milk (www.rememberthemilk.com, you > >> have a blueprint for that). Currently, I'm in the phase where I can get > >> both > >> lists of tasks, and I'm deciding how to merge them. > >> Since RTM: > >> - does not have subtask > >> - does not have start date > >> - has a task description that is very similar to gtg > >> task title (they support multiple notes per task, however), > >> > >> it's not so trivial to me to see the best way to sync. > >> Up to now, my best idea is maintaining a table of GTG_TID <->RTM_TID. > >> > >> > >> Moreover, I'll need to store some data (namely, RTM api auth token): > >> how should I do that to integrate smoothly with gtg architecture? > >> Some kind of ~/.config/gtg/plugins/$PLUGIN_NAME directory? > >> > >> Thanks in advance (and for the awesome work), > >> > >> Luca Invernizzi > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~gtg > >> Post to : [email protected] > >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~gtg > >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >> > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~gtg-user > > Post to : [email protected] > > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~gtg-user > > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > > > -- > Bertrand Rousseau > Place communale 1, 1450 Chastre, Belgium > e-mail : [email protected] > tel : +32 485 96 69 86 > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~gtg-user > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~gtg-user > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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