[Slashcode-development] Calendering

[Chris N. <pu...@po...>]

A lot of people have been talking about calendering in the past.  Well, my
concern is that it does everything a calendar "should" do.  To wit: there
is a Perl project being planned called Reefknot
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/reefknot/) that looks very promising.  The
two people running it are very dependable, so I have little doubt the
project will be developed and will work well.  They have some info at the
SourceForge site above.

Now, a Calendaring plugin for Slash does not need to use Reefknot (though I
am quite lazy and would rather use another good project than develop our
own), but the interesting thing I did not prevoiously know about is that
there is an RFC for calendaring.  See RFCs 2445 - 2447.  They were written
by folks from Microsoft and Lotus.  I don't know much about it, but it
seems like it would certainly be a very good idea to investigate, before
moving forward, whether a Calendar plugin for Slash should be RFC 2445
compliant (2446 and 2447 describe message and transport protocols).

And if RFC 2445 is a good way to go for a Slash plugin, then should
Reefknot be the implementation used?

I don't have answers, but thought that this would be useful information.

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