Re: [ANNOUNCE] SimpleAgenda 0.34

[Helge Hess]

On 14.12.2007, at 01:31, Philippe Roussel wrote:
> I thought about using it when I started this project but, to be
> honest, I'm lazy :o)

:-) Well, you probably looked at sope-ical, which is (slightly)  
different to NGCards. (Wolfgang started a completely new library based  
on the old one, for reasons I still don't really understand ;-)

> libical is really simple to use, as far as I can see works and seems
> to be more or less maintained (I've been contacted to test
> SimpleAgenda with the future libical 0.30). On your opinion, what's
> wrong with libical ?

Uhm, I found it really hard to use and completely unmaintained. But  
apparently you are fine with it :-)

> On the other end, NGCards is a big library, apparently not very well
> documented (sorry :-) and seems to depend on many other stuff (versit
> SAX driver, SAX, sope-xml etc) but I may be wrong...

Hm, no. It just depends on sope-xml/SaxObjC (a rather small lib with  
no additional dependencies). Everything else is included in NGCards,  
and its not *that* big.

> If I can use NGCards without adding to many dependencies and with some
> benefits over libical, I would glad to do it.


I guess the biggest benefit is that it is high level and directly  
integrates at the Foundation library. And its actively maintained :-)


In fact I wonder how you deal with things like date handling and  
recurrences. Hm, should have a look at the source ;-)

Greets,
  Helge
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