[Kde-pim] Re: Using Akonadi

[Kevin Krammer]

On Sunday, 2010-10-10, Fabian Schmidt wrote:
> hi Tobias,
> 
> thank you for your mail. I guess you might got the gnome thing wrong. I
> doubt that the gnome people will consider using akonadi for projects like
> evolution, empathy or ekiga as long as akonadi is implemented with qt.

There could be a misunderstanding here.
Due to its service based approach there is no library dependency shared 
between server and clients.
It is quite natural that GNOME applications would not link against Qt but this 
is not necessary by design.

While it is of course technically possible to reimplement server parts with 
any other technology stack, I doubt that anyone would want to spend resources 
on such an endeavor, just like nobody would spend resources to reimplement 
NetworkManager or Telepathy core services just because their current 
implementations link with GLib/GObject.

> on the other subject what exactly has to be done to say make akonadi work
> with the c++ libs of gnome or with python?

The Python library is currently just a prototype, for demonstrating that it is 
indeed possible to use Akonadi without any dependencies leaking from the 
server to the clients.
As for C based GLib/GObject based code, I've started investigating Vala as a 
means to do that.

Cheers,
Kevin

-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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