Re: [Opensync-users] OpenSync 0.15 released

[Helge H. <hel...@op...>]

On Mar 31, 2005, at 15:11, Armin Bauer wrote:
>> I am still sitting on the fence on GroupDAV, so I am curious to see 
>> what
>> others are thing about it. For openSync I think it could help broaden
>> the appeal of the project and also for groupware projects which
>> implement the protocol. I can also see the case for everyone just 
>> using
>> syncML ;)
> How is groupdav related to caldav and webdav?

GroupDAV is mostly a subset of CalDAV for vevent/vtodo related 
operations. It also works with vcards in addition, something which 
isn't in the scope of CalDAV.

The focus of GroupDAV is to be really, really simple to implement in 
web based groupware servers. It doesn't even require a full WebDAV 
implementation, just two predefined PROPFIND queries.

An idea is to have something usable very quickly (GroupDAV) but to have 
a reasonable base to build full CalDAV support upon.

> There already is a plugin in the old multisync that can pull icalendar 
> files from webdav, sync it and put it back (thats whats called caldev 
> afaik).

I guess this plugin is doing iCal-over-HTTP. The difference to CalDAV 
and GroupDAV is that those are using URLs to address individual 
vevent/vtodo entries with all the attached advantages.

Greets,
   Helge
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