Re: Improving Emacs' iCalendar support

[Richard Lawrence]

Hi Visuwesh,

Visuwesh <visuweshm@gmail.com> writes:

> It has been at least a couple years since I wrote this function so I
> don't remember the hurdles I faced when I wrote it very well but it
> perplexed me that there were no "public" functions that were geared
> towards parsing an ical file.  In retrospect, it would have been less
> confusing if these functions were "public" functions.  AFAIR, and this
> very well might not be true, the structure returned
> icalendar--read-element is not really documented anywhere which further
> added to the confusion.

Yes, I had the same feeling. I spent a while looking through
icalendar.el about six months ago, hoping I could find an appropriate
point to hook into it/extend it. But the private function names and lack
of documentation of the data structures eventually caused me to give up.
I couldn't figure out a good way to use it or patch it to do what I
wanted, and it seemed like there were a lot of things it didn't
implement anyway...thus this current project ;)

> That said, this function has been rock solid ever since I wrote it.
> Going by the ical files I have, it is working just fine since 2021.

Are you saying it would be important to you to preserve the "private"
API of icalendar.el? or just that you're glad this API is still working? 

Best,
Richard