[SyncEvolution] SyncEvolution and SSO on SailfishOS (and Ubuntu)

[Patrick Ohly]

On Sat, 2014-01-04 at 09:56 +0100, Ove Kåven wrote:
> The SSO implementation on Sailfish, though, is also based on Nokia's SSO 
> implementation. From what I can tell, this implementation is from 
> Ubuntu. It seems to me that Sailfish is using the SSO implementation 
> from Ubuntu Online Accounts.

I'm not sure which one came first, but yes, this is the same solution
(libaccounts + libsignon, aka Ubuntu Online Accounts). An alternative
implementation is gSSO (forked libsignon with a new, glib-based
implementation of the daemon and plugins).

> Then, what's the plan for supporting UOA in SyncEvolution?

The gSSO that was discussed on this list last year pretty much already
covered it. See
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/SyncEvolution/syncevolution/tree/src/backends/signon/README

Since then Canonical has contributed a patch to make it work with Ubuntu
Online Accounts, see https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72263

I'll merge that patch soon, it's only blocked by my current work on
parallelizing the nightly test system. Well, that, and Christmas/New
Year Eve's vacation :-)

Regarding Sailfish, you'll probably need to compare docs to find out
whether it works exactly as the current Ubuntu Online Accounts.

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Best Regards, Patrick Ohly

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