[Evolution-hackers] Developing an EPlugin for Opportunistic Network Message Delivery
Hello everyone! As part of my research in opportunistic networking I've designed with fellow students a routing protocol to deliver messages (from now on I use the terms "message" and "email" interchangeably) in absence of any kind of network access which relies only on direct contacts (through basic wireless access interfaces) between nodes and on the fact that nodes are mobile (think of a user carrying his/her laptop/netbook around) and thus can forward a message from the source to the destination by a series of direct contact exchanges. Such a routing protocol is thought to be useful in a community environment such as a college campus, a hospital or a company headquarters where there is a rather large group of users who move around the area and can carry messages on behalf of senders to the destinations. Now we'd like to implement our protocol to analyze its overall performance and instead of recreating a message client application we think it might be much more interesting developing it as a plugin for an already existing email client application, thus being able to leverage on the already available email creation, calendar and address book subsystems. Then we could focus on the direct contact exchange and routing protocol implementation. I've looked into the online information for EPlugin development but I still have a few doubts as how to get started with my own EPlugin: * Where can I find a getting started tutorial that describes how to develop a simple EPlugin and how to hook up into EVolution's email creation, calendar and address book subsystems? * What are the limitations related to hooking into Evolution (perhaps, hook ups are missing for certain objects)? * What should my EPlugin project directory be organized? * Can I use C, C++, C# w/ Mono, any other languages/platform? * How do I build my EPlugin? * How do I add an EPlugin to an existing Evolution installation? Once we'll have the EPlugin ready, we plan to make it available to users on our campus or at other communities to collect performance data for our analysis. Of course, if anybody within the Evolution development community is interested in participating in the development of this EPlugin helping us novices, that will be very much appreciated and hopefully also a very interesting experience. I hope I could make my point clear enough in this email but please, feel free to get back to me with any question or suggestion. BTW, I do use Evolution as my email, address book and calendar application on Ubuntu ;-) Looking forward to your help I thank you in advance, Gia -- Giacomo Ghidini, PhD Student (gia.ghid...@gmail.com) - Center for Research in Wireless Mobility and Networking (CReWMaN) Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of Texas at Arlington 500 W First St WH 411 Arlington, TX 76010 Tel.: +1 817 272 7409 - ___ Evolution-hackers mailing list Evolution-hackers@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
Re: [Evolution-hackers] Developing an EPlugin for Opportunistic Network Message Delivery
Hi Partha! Thank you for all your answers and suggestions. I'll check out all the resources you listed and try to get started. As for the support for other platforms, in this slide presentation Mono assembly support is cited along shared library one. However, that's not really important to me as I can any available solution. I'll keep you posted on the developments. All the best and thank you once again, Gia On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 09:27 +0530, parthasarathi susarla wrote: > Hi Gia, > > On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 11:53 PM, Giacomo Ghidini > wrote: > > < snip> > > > > > * Where can I find a getting started tutorial that describes how > >to develop a simple EPlugin and how to hook up into EVolution's > >email creation, calendar and address book subsystems? > IMHO the best place to start off with writing is to look at the source > itself. All the e-plugins are available in 'plugins' directory in the > evolution source. > The necessary documentation is available here: > http://www.go-evolution.org/EPlugin > http://wiki.openchange.org/index.php/Evolution_plugin_Installation_and_Configuration > > > * What are the limitations related to hooking into Evolution > >(perhaps, hook ups are missing for certain objects)? > Ideally we should have hookups at every possible object in Evo, but > well its not an ideal world and there are certain limitations. > Ofcourse, you are more than welcome to actually contribute to > enhancing the e-plugin architecture. :). Heres a list of all the > plugins that are available in Evolution currently: > > http://projects.gnome.org/evolution/eplugins.shtml > There are wide variety of plugins listed, should give you an idea as > to what can be done. (At the least you will know what *has* and could > be done) > > > * What should my EPlugin project directory be organized? > it should go to evolution/plugins directory ( > http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/evolution/trunk/plugins/ ) > > > * Can I use C, C++, C# w/ Mono, any other languages/platform? > You surely can use C (Evo, is almost entirely written in C). Am not > sure about other language bindings. > > > * How do I build my EPlugin? > Check > http://wiki.openchange.org/index.php/Evolution_plugin_Installation_and_Configuration > > > * How do I add an EPlugin to an existing Evolution installation? > Developer Docs for EPlugin - > http://projects.gnome.org/evolution/developer-doc/eplugin/ > > > Cheers, > Partha > ___ Evolution-hackers mailing list Evolution-hackers@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
