[maemo-developers] EDS groupware "plugin" development

[From: Nils Faerber]

David Greaves wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-06-04 at 11:48 +0200, Nils Faerber wrote:
>> Hello!
>> We are currently evaluating the possibilities to attach the N900/Maemo5
>> to a groupware server for synchronising PIM data - primarily contacts
>> and calendar events.
>> Maemo5 quite obviously uses EDS
> EDS? Electronic Data Sync ?
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDS
> 
> Not a term I'm familiar with :)

Try Evolution Data Server ;)

>>  in some form to handle some PIM data but
>> by quick searching I was not yet able to verify how EDS is used in
>> Maemo5. E.g. it is not fully obvious to me if EDS is used for all PIM
>> data or just for the address since I only see this
>> 	/usr/lib/evolution-data-server/e-addressbook-factory
>> in my process list.
> Try:
>   http://syncevolution.org/
>   http://wiki.maemo.org/Sync
> syncevolution is also part of MeeGo and has an active mailing list.

This is not exactly what we are looking for.
Syncing means to have two datasets and to try to merge between them.
The backend plugin would add the groupware server as another calendar
source without the need to actually copy over all the data from the
server over to the device - what a sync wouls mean.

>> And since the calendar and addressbook applications seem to be
>> non-open-source I cannot check in them either.
>> The intention is to create something, like an EDS plugin, that will
>> allow the standard Maemo5 applications to transparently use another
>> groupware server, like e.g. Kolab.
> So SyncML is the likely answer AIUI.

Nope - not really ;)

> David
Cheers
  nils

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