Jppy: Group scheduling features?

[Nicholas Piper]

Lars,

On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, Lars Persson Fink wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 06:25:03PM +0100, Nicholas Piper wrote:

> > Current Jppy CVS doesn't have calendar support I'm afraid. I added
> > about half of it, before a disk crash, but that was lost and not
> > redone yet!

> Hmm, do you use jpilot in parallel to jppy for calender? Or how does
> it work?

Yes, I just start up jpilot and work on the same data via that
client. Most of my calendaring is done with DateBk5 on the palm,
though.

> > > I could see from the screenshot that it is possible to export vcards for 
> > > contacts. Is it also possible to import them (jp_add_contact?) in 
> > > vcard-format?

> > Not yet, but it's easy to add contacts once you get them into 'python
> > space'. I'm still wishing for a Python vcard handler, but until then
> > you can probably extend the C part of Jppy to use versit to parse the
> > vcard.

> I found a python project on sourceforge http://pdi.sourceforge.net/
> for vcard, vcalendar etc maybe that could be something to look in
> to. They haven't released any files but you can get the source from cvs.

Yeah, that looks interesting! Last touched 16 months ago though.

> > > Where in CVS should I start looking if I want to start hacking these features? 
> > > Is it possible to test some without being able to have a full compile 
> > > environment?

> > It's probably possible, but tricky. I've just finished reading a book
> > on the autotools, so my next bit of free time will be spent redoing
> > the build system, to make it actually work a bit :-)

> Sounds like the best thing to start with. If I get some spare time
> I'll try out pdi to parse vcards.

Cool, let me know how it goes!

 Nick

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