Markus Meyer wrote:
Hi Marco,
the Mozilla Calendar plugin (plugins/sunbird_plugin), which you can download from CVS works directly with .ics files. It can use both local .ics files and files on a WebDAV server, and should be able to also read and write .ics files from other applications. It is not 100% finished yet, but I use it everyday and it seems to work fine. Of course you are welcome to test it out with other applications' .ics files and report your results.
When the first version of OpenSync is released I will port this plugin to the OpenSync API. At this time it should also be discussed if there should be another name for the plugin, e.g. "ICS plugin". Armin suggested to create two versions of the plugin, one specific to Mozilla Calendar (which reads Mozilla Calendar's config files), and one for arbitrary ICS files (which must be configured manually). At the moment I'm more in favor of a single plugin which knows how to deal with multiple applications, but can optionally be configured manually.
i think there was a misunderstanding :)
I meant that it would be good to implement the ics file sync into a library (like the bluetooth library of the irmc plugin) that can then be accessed by other plugins.
So there would then be a mozilla plugin that reads the mozilla config and uses this lib to sync the local ics file.
And then there would be a caldev plugin that pulls the ics file from a webdav storage first and then syncs it.
One reason why a generic .ics plugin isn't high priority is that it is always better to use a sync API than write to the .ics files directly. For example, Mozilla Calendar will not update its display when the underlying .ics file changes, you have to refresh it manually. Also, there are synchronisation issues with server-based .ics files (WebDAV), because Mozilla Calendar doesn't implement proper locking. So I see the Mozilla Calendar plugin (= .ics plugin) more as a workaround for applications that don't have a proper sync api yet.
i agree. but this cannot (and should not) be fixed in multisync.
the question is when the sunbird people are going to implement a proper sync api. if it is in reasonable time there shouldnt be any need to create a plugin that reads mozilla's configs.
Markus
Marco schrieb:
Hi
Recently I found out, that lots of Calendar clients use an Ical file as storage. Or can at least work with this file type. I was wondering why nobody is writing a general Ical Multisync plugin. like this we can open that file with different calendar clients and don't have to worry about the application.
What do you think about this?
Thanks for feedback
Marco
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