[Evolution-hackers] concurrent modifications of items in GUI and EDS database

2009-01-07 Thread Patrick Ohly
Hello! I'm currently thinking about synchronizing data with SyncEvolution in the background while the user is active with the Evolution UI. Some users already do that via cron jobs, but it is known to be problematic for several reasons, among them change tracking and concurrent editing of items.

Re: [Evolution-hackers] A Camel API to get the filename of the cache, also a proposal to have one format to rule them all

2009-01-07 Thread Srinivasa Ragavan
The Exchange patch looks fine to me. -Srini. On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 12:28 +0100, Philip Van Hoof wrote: > On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 00:42 +0530, Srinivasa Ragavan wrote: > > > > On Fri, 2009-01-02 at 13:25 +0100, Philip Van Hoof wrote: > > > Hi there evos, > > > > > > For an EPlugin that I'm working

Re: [Evolution-hackers] concurrent modifications of items in GUI and EDS database

2009-01-07 Thread Milan Crha
On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 12:45 +0100, Patrick Ohly wrote: > ... > The plan for change tracking is to get rid of the dependency on > e_book_get_changes(). I already stopped using e_cal_get_changes() > because it was too inflexible. Instead I'll rely on the REV resp. > LAST-MODIFIED properties: the back

Re: [Evolution-hackers] concurrent modifications of items in GUI and EDS database

2009-01-07 Thread Patrick Ohly
On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 16:05 +0100, Milan Crha wrote: > On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 12:45 +0100, Patrick Ohly wrote: > > ... > > The plan for change tracking is to get rid of the dependency on > > e_book_get_changes(). I already stopped using e_cal_get_changes() > > because it was too inflexible. Instead

Re: [Evolution-hackers] concurrent modifications of items in GUI and EDS database

2009-01-07 Thread Stefano Canepa
Il giorno mer, 07/01/2009 alle 12.45 +0100, Patrick Ohly ha scritto: > Hello! > > I'm currently thinking about synchronizing data with SyncEvolution in > the background while the user is active with the Evolution UI. Some > users already do that via cron jobs, but it is known to be problematic > f

[Evolution-hackers] Cannot run evolution built using jhbuild

2009-01-07 Thread Stefano Canepa
Hi all, I would like to write an e-plugin to run syncevolution but as I'm new to evolution development I decide, may be I'm wrong, to start build from source using jhbuild thinking that this is the quickest way to satisfy the requirements. I just followed http://projects.gnome.org/evolutio

[Evolution-hackers] Funambol sync from evolution

2009-01-07 Thread Stefano Canepa
Hi all, I'm trying to develop a plugin to run configure and run syncevolution on user request. My idea is to have a plugin like the one that sync with the ipod adding an option on the context menu in calendar and addressbook. On user request the plugin will run syncevolution, displaing an e

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Cannot run evolution built using jhbuild

2009-01-07 Thread Patrick Ohly
On Mi, 2009-01-07 at 22:20 +0100, Stefano Canepa wrote: > I would like to write an e-plugin to run syncevolution Excellent! Let me know when I can help with the SyncEvolution side of things. As far as e-plugins go I don't know anything myself, so we'll have to depend on the assistance of the

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Funambol sync from evolution

2009-01-07 Thread Patrick Ohly
On Mi, 2009-01-07 at 22:27 +0100, Stefano Canepa wrote: > On user request the plugin will run syncevolution, > displaing an error message if there is no syncevolution on the system > and the log and all messages of syncevolution if there are logs or > messages. It wouldn't be hard to create and in

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Cannot run evolution built using jhbuild

2009-01-07 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi, On 07.01.2009 22:20, Stefano Canepa wrote: > 2) what's going wrong the evolution built by jhbuild? > The build itself works properly, right? Running your newly build Evolution fails, if I read your log correctly. To run evolution, you should do a "jhbuild run evolution". It is not clear to m

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Funambol sync from evolution

2009-01-07 Thread George Farris
On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 23:20 +0100, Patrick Ohly wrote: > My suggestion regarding the language would be to check out how easy it > is to write Evolution plugins in C and Python. Pick the one that you > find easier. Python is a nice language. A downside might be that users > of older Evolution releas

Re: [Evolution-hackers] concurrent modifications of items in GUI and EDS database

2009-01-07 Thread Suman Manjunath
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 17:15, Patrick Ohly wrote: > The plan for change tracking is to get rid of the dependency on > e_book_get_changes(). I already stopped using e_cal_get_changes() > because it was too inflexible. Instead I'll rely on the REV resp. > LAST-MODIFIED properties: the backend must u