Ar 20/11/2008 am 12:09, ysgrifennodd Will Thompson: > Hi, > > I've been working on a draft[0] of a new ContactInfo connection > interface, which models the information as a slightly structured > representation of vCard data. (Contrast with the old interface, which > represented vCards as... a string containing a vCard. :-)) While vCard > is kind of hairy and suboptimal, it's widely used (both XEPs relating to > contact info are based on vCard) and there's no point in defining > another format only to have to map to and from the vCard semantics in > every CM.
Um. If vCards are widely used, perhaps sending and receiving them as strings is not such a bad thing. Otherwise software that already supports them has to be modified to support our new interface, or has to undo the translation that the connection manager does. Essentially, we *have* defined another format, it's just not a text one, and software will have to do lots of mapping back and forth. I concur that this interface is more helpful for software that doesn't already understand vCards, but there are existing, mature libraries to help with that. -- Dafydd _______________________________________________ Telepathy mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/telepathy
