[Opensync-users] Re: thunderbird plugin (Armin Bauer

[Bas a. de W. <bas...@gm...>]

Hi Igor and Armin,

Did you know that for the sync4j project (sync4j.org) already an very
early extension for Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird is developed?
Maybe you can use part of that code.
See http://sourceforge.net/projects/sync4jmozilla

Bas

>Igor Testem wrote:
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>>> hi,
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>>> 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?
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>Hi Igor,
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>yes we have plans for a thunderbird plugin. But there are some technical
>hurdles to overcome before we can implement it cleanly (see below)
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>>> 
>>> 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?
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>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.
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>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
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>But this is definitely on our todo list.
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>Armin
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