[Kde-pim] kdepim support for google calendar and contacts

[Mike Arthur]

On Thursday 16 April 2009 07:52:54 Till Adam wrote:
> In our discussion on IRC we thought it might be a good idea to have all
> resources with "third party" dependencies (google, exchange, facebook,
> etc.) in extragear, rather then kdepim, to ensure they can be released
> along with the upstream library updates, or shortly after,, but also to
> make sure resources are done against the public, published Akonadi API (to
> preempt a similar mess to the Kontact plugins fiasko, ask the Basket guys
> how well we've been doing there in the past ...). Additionally it seems
> like it would make it easier to pick and chose for distributors and keep
> the dependency list of kdepim morem manageable. Just modularization, is
> all. The downside is that releases are not automatic (a bit more work for
> the resource maintainers, but also more control), and that packages have to
> look in one more place to find "all of kdepim". I think the latter can be
> solved with communication.
Seems all very reasonable and a good idea, I was just curious.

Thanks for elaborating!

-- 
Cheers,
Mike Arthur
http://mikearthur.co.uk/
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