[Kde-pim] Making Akonadi fit for embedded use

[Till Adam]

On Sunday, January 05, 2014 10:10:48 PM Manuel Nickschas wrote:
> On Sunday 05 January 2014 19:42:42 Till Adam wrote:
> 
> Hi Till,
> 
> > On Wednesday, October 31, 2012 10:29:27 AM Manuel Sput Nickschas wrote:
> > > As people frequenting #akonadi already know, I'm currently evaluating
> > > the
> > > use of Akonadi for an embedded Linux platform.
> > 
> > I'm curious, do you have an update on this? Shelved?
> 
> As it happens, we had some slight change of priorities in the past year,
> thus we didn't have time to delve more into the topic of PIM. However, for
> the evaluation prototype we managed to get Akonadi (with KDE4 and X11...)
> running on our platform and thus were not urgently in need of having a
> frameworkified, splitted version of kdepimlibs for doing the major part of
> our evaluation. Let's say Akonadi came out favorable compared to the
> alternatives, and with Frameworks now getting close to a release, probably
> things should look even better if we should happen to revisit the PIM topic
> at some point. There were some open questions in particular regarding
> per-user encryption that we did not have a solution for. On the plus side,
> all developers involved liked the Akonadi architecture and APIs very much.
> A final decision, however, was never made, because the architects™
> refocused their attention.
> 
> My work on splitting kdepimlibs never got finished, as just deploying the
> full version for the prototype proved to be a sufficient short-term
> solution, and I don't think there's any use in upstreaming any of it, since
> the codebase and build system have changed in major ways in the last year
> anyway.
> 
> I'm quite confident that the topic will come back to us at some time, at
> which point we'll re-evaluate things. I'll let you know if there's any
> news, of course.
> 
> Thanks for your interest and all the help I got from you and various other
> people, especially David and Stephen, it was very useful even though in the
> end we only got a whitepaper out of it :)

Thanks a lot for the update. And I would love to see that whitepaper at some 
point :).

Cheers,

Till
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