[SyncEvolution] Syncevolution for TDE

[Patrick Ohly]

On Mon, 2015-12-21 at 20:45 +0000, Emanoil Kotsev wrote:
> >> May I ask for your opinion please - what would be the steps or send me
> >> web links to docs as I'm getting lost in the documentation?
> >
> >Depending on the kind of PIM storage you need to interface with you need
> >to implement different interfaces. Most storages support
> >importing/exporting items in a standard format (like vCard or iCalendar)
> >and offer some kind of item listing. The TrackingSyncSource is a good
> >base class for this and comes with full documentation of all virtua
> >methods that one may have to implement.
> 
> TDE is the former KDE3 project. I'll need to have a look into the
> details on the interfaces, but it looks possible.

I don't know how far back KCal goes, but perhaps at least that API is
similar.

> >> 1. Is there a way to sync with TDE  without writing backends for TDE?
> >> I ask this in the bluetooth/usb context.
> >
> >I don't know what kind of storage TDE supports. It's likely that you
> >will have to write a backend for its PIM API.
> 
> Thanks I had a look in the past days just to find out that new bluez5
> works much different (and perhaps better), but still could be the real
> challenge here.

SyncEvolution interfaces to Bluetooth via libopenobex, which talks
directly to the kernel. That part should work right away, also with
Bluez5.

> >> 2. Where do I start and what process should I follow to integrate the
> >> code into the build and in the gui?
> >
> >Backends get detected automatically when placed in src/backends, so just
> >copy-and-paste, modify, then re-run autogen + configure + make.
> 
> Oh, thanks, however I have seen some checks and options to
> disable/enable KDE4+ and Gnome linking in the code (I got from git).
> So the question was more about how could I disable nearly everything
> else except for what I want to test. Is there any (documented) process
> on how to modify or just hack the automake files

Once you ran autogen.sh, the resulting configure has enable/disable
options for all backends. There's no need to change the autotools source
files.


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