Re: [Opensync-devel] Opensync 0.3x and beyond

[Chris F. <cd...@fo...>]

On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 01:51:53PM -0800, Theodore Charles III wrote:
> As of right now, barry uses the Opensync 0.22 API. I was reading 
> something in the FAQ in that the future versions of Opensync API will 
> not have calendar syncing available. I quote:
> 
> Why there will be no calendar syncing with 0.3x or 0.40?
> Because format (vFormat, xmlFormat) plugins are not complete before 
> these releases due the fact that iCalendar and vCalendar handling is 
> really complex. Conversion problems between RRULE's complicates the 
> implementation. There is no Timezone handling at all in vCalendar. 90% 
> all sync setups request by users involve iCalendar <-> vCalendar syncing.

This is an opensync FAQ question, so I'll CC the opensync list as well.

	http://opensync.org/wiki/trunk/faq#why-no-calendar

While timezone support is indeed not available, as far as I know, I didn't
think that it was a show stopper.  Version 0.22 doesn't have timezone
support either.


> So, as far as the barry project goes, will this mean that barry will 
> continue to use the 0.22 API for synchronizing?

Barry has both an 0.22 plugin and an 0.4x plugin.  The 0.4x plugin tracks
the current opensync devel tree relatively closely.  You are free to use
either, but understand that there are unique issues with each.

i.e. 0.22 lacks capability support, and sometimes requires a fresh sync
	to recover from hang problems

and 0.4x is not yet released, and is still in development.

- Chris