for the record, here's the thread from april of last year where this was last discussed... http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/nmh-workers/2013-04/msg00077.html
my view, which seems to agree with current thinking: making 'repl' calendar-aware seems like the wrong approach -- creatinga a special ics handling program would be far more flexible. as for writing it in C? i haven't seen an ics attachment lately, but is posix shell, plus utilities, really not up to the task? paul ken wrote: > > > Part of me thinks we should include a tool that interfaces with > > > text/calendar format files and lets people easily view and generate a > > > reply to them. > > > >Yes, if not directly in nmh, then strongly recommended to install. > >(In debian terms this would be a "recommended" dependancy, which if > >available, is usually installed, but won't cause a failure to install if > >unavailable). > > It seems that no one really provides a tool that does what we want. > calcurse sort-of does the display stuff, but it's kind of heavyweight > to install just for that. I think it would be reasonable to provide a > command-line tool that can be used to deal with these. > > The lesson from replyfilter seems to me that putting this tool in > "contrib" and writing it in another language (like perl) would result in > it not being used that much, partly because another language would > result in a whole pile of dependencies, partly because if it was in > "contrib" not everyone would know about it. So this tool should be > written in C and live in base. I'll think about how such a tool could > be integrated into the "new MIME" architecture I've been musing about. > > --Ken > > _______________________________________________ > Nmh-workers mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers =---------------------- paul fox, [email protected] (arlington, ma, where it's 85.3 degrees) _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
