Re: [Evolution-hackers] UID in vCard

2011-11-18 Thread Christian Hilberg
Hi Patrick, Am Mittwoch 16 November 2011, um 15:55:54 schrieb Patrick Ohly: Hello! [...] On Di, 2011-11-15 at 15:01 +0100, Christian Hilberg wrote: If a new UID is to be created, it is the responsibility of the Kolab client to assign one. The Kolab server itself is unaware to object

Re: [Evolution-hackers] UID in vCard

2011-11-18 Thread Patrick Ohly
On Fri, 2011-11-18 at 11:23 +0100, Christian Hilberg wrote: Am Mittwoch 16 November 2011, um 15:55:54 schrieb Patrick Ohly: Hello! [...] On Di, 2011-11-15 at 15:01 +0100, Christian Hilberg wrote: If a new UID is to be created, it is the responsibility of the Kolab client to assign

Re: [Evolution-hackers] UID in vCard

2011-11-18 Thread Christian Hilberg
Hi, Am Freitag 18 November 2011, um 16:53:38 schrieb Patrick Ohly: On Fri, 2011-11-18 at 11:23 +0100, Christian Hilberg wrote: [...] While the E-D-S client (like Evo) might not be interested whether it is a Kolab backend being used, there is still one thing you may wish to consider

Re: [Evolution-hackers] UID in vCard

2011-11-16 Thread Chenthill
On Mon, 2011-11-14 at 10:00 +0100, Patrick Ohly wrote: Hello! I'd like to write down some thoughts on vCard UID handling in EDS. Andrew mentioned it on IRC, so I'm copying him. Let me define the terms to make the difference clear: * UID: part of the contact properties. Ideally set

Re: [Evolution-hackers] UID in vCard

2011-11-16 Thread Patrick Ohly
Hello! Before I reply to Christian, let me elaborate a bit more on why overwriting the UID is bad for syncing. I thought it was obvious, but probably not ;-} What I have in mind is a system where contact data moves freely and ad-hoc between peers, without being forced to go through a central

Re: [Evolution-hackers] UID in vCard

2011-11-16 Thread Rodrigo Moya
On miƩ, 2011-11-16 at 15:55 +0100, Patrick Ohly wrote: CouchDB comes close, but is a closed system. You also cannot create two independent CouchDB instances and then merge them (at least that is my understanding - I might be wrong on that particular aspect). not sure what you mean, but if

Re: [Evolution-hackers] UID in vCard

2011-11-15 Thread Patrick Ohly
On Di, 2011-11-15 at 10:50 +0100, Christian Hilberg wrote: Hi everyone, Am Montag 14 November 2011, um 11:22:57 schrieb Milan Crha: On Mon, 2011-11-14 at 10:00 +0100, Patrick Ohly wrote: So I suggest to pursue the first approach instead. I think it is possible for the file backend.

Re: [Evolution-hackers] UID in vCard

2011-11-15 Thread Christian Hilberg
Am Dienstag 15 November 2011, um 15:01:54 schrieb Christian Hilberg: Am Dienstag 15 November 2011, um 11:03:24 schrieb Patrick Ohly: [...] What happens during syncing? Do you resolve the add-add conflict by duplicating the item, merging them or discarding one copy? This is a

Re: [Evolution-hackers] UID in vCard

2011-11-15 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Tue, 2011-11-15 at 08:41 +0100, Milan Crha wrote: On Mon, 2011-11-14 at 21:06 +0100, Patrick Ohly wrote: What about a CardDAV server? It has server-supplied IDs (the path to the resource) and a UID as part of the vCard stored there? How is that handled at the moment? Hi, there

Re: [Evolution-hackers] UID in vCard

2011-11-14 Thread Milan Crha
On Mon, 2011-11-14 at 10:00 +0100, Patrick Ohly wrote: So I suggest to pursue the first approach instead. I think it is possible for the file backend. Is it also possible for other backends? Or are some unable to store the UID and look up contacts (efficiently) by it? In that case we will

Re: [Evolution-hackers] UID in vCard

2011-11-14 Thread Patrick Ohly
On Mo, 2011-11-14 at 11:22 +0100, Milan Crha wrote: On Mon, 2011-11-14 at 10:00 +0100, Patrick Ohly wrote: So I suggest to pursue the first approach instead. I think it is possible for the file backend. Is it also possible for other backends? Or are some unable to store the UID and

Re: [Evolution-hackers] UID in vCard

2011-11-14 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Mon, 2011-11-14 at 21:06 +0100, Patrick Ohly wrote: On Mo, 2011-11-14 at 11:22 +0100, Milan Crha wrote: On Mon, 2011-11-14 at 10:00 +0100, Patrick Ohly wrote: So I suggest to pursue the first approach instead. I think it is possible for the file backend. Is it also possible for

Re: [Evolution-hackers] UID in vCard

2011-11-14 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Mon, 2011-11-14 at 21:06 +0100, Patrick Ohly wrote: On Mo, 2011-11-14 at 11:22 +0100, Milan Crha wrote: On Mon, 2011-11-14 at 10:00 +0100, Patrick Ohly wrote: So I suggest to pursue the first approach instead. I think it is possible for the file backend. Is it also possible for

Re: [Evolution-hackers] UID in vCard

2011-11-14 Thread Milan Crha
On Mon, 2011-11-14 at 21:06 +0100, Patrick Ohly wrote: What about a CardDAV server? It has server-supplied IDs (the path to the resource) and a UID as part of the vCard stored there? How is that handled at the moment? Hi, there is no exact support for CardDAV as such, the closest is