[Kde-pim] status of libical

[Thomas Koch]

Hi KDEPIM,

I found your discussion about libical[1] on the Kde-pim list, and wanted to 
ask, if you know anything more about the actual status of libical. Do you 
know, if there's an actual maintainer?

I'm planning to write a PHP extension to wrap libical[2]. The main reason for 
wrapping libical into PHP, is for me to have one common library used by many 
PIM projects. This could help with compatibility. Therefor I wanted to know, 
whether Evolution, KDE-PIM and others plan to stick with libical or not.

Do you know this discussion[3] from 2004? Already then people complained, that 
the upstream of libical would be pretty dead and that it would be nice to 
have a common library for all PIM applications.

There's a project from OpenSync to write another library to handle vCalendar 
and vCard. The Readme[4] mentions, that it's the explicit goal to make this 
library also usable as standalone for other projects. But judging from the 
TODO[5] for this vFormat library, it's not that mature yet.

BTW: What do you use in KDE-PIM to parse and generate vCards? Could you point 
me to the web-svn link please? It's a pain, that vCards aren't handled by 
libical too.

Best regards,

Thomas Koch


[1] http://marc.info/?l=kde-pim&m=120585806306183&w=2
[2] 
http://www.koch.ro/blog/index.php?/archives/71-libical-Extension-for-PHP.html
[3] http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-pim&m=109362591526968&w=2
[4] http://www.opensync.org/browser/format-plugins/vformat/src/README
[5] http://www.opensync.org/wiki/TODO

-- 
Thomas Koch, Software Developer
http://www.koch.ro
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