Re: [Opensync-users] thunderbird plugin

[Armin B. <arm...@de...>]

Igor Testem wrote:
> hi,
> 
> I've just searched through the archives and the homepage and there seems
> to be no thunderbird plugin yet. I also didn't find a plugin for the
> "mozilla calendar" plugin for thunderbird. Is there anything planned in
> this direction?

Hi Igor,

yes we have plans for a thunderbird plugin. But there are some technical
hurdles to overcome before we can implement it cleanly (see below)

> 
> I noticed that Evolution 2 and Mozilla calendar both store their
> calendar in the vCalendar format, so with small adjustments, one could
> port the evo2 plugin to Mozilla, or?

No, definitely not. the evo2 plugin uses a synchronization api provided
by evo2 itself. one problem with synchronization is that you need to
lock the storage being synced otherwise you might loose changes. evo2
solved this by having an backend (evolution-data-server) and a frontend
which conntects through an IPC. this way the backend can ensure that
locking etc happens.

But thunderbird does not have this (yet). so to synchronize it correctly
we have to sync from the thunderbird process to the opensync process via
some sort of IPC. and this part is missing. there is a ticket for this
on opensync.org: http://www.opensync.org/ticket/90

But this is definitely on our todo list.

Armin

> 
> Regards, Igor
> 
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