[Kolab-devel] Thunderbird + Lightning + Kolab 2 server to store and access addresses and events

[Bernhard Reiter]

Am Mittwoch, 9. August 2006 21:30 schrieb Andreas Gungl:
> Status update:
>
> Synckolab ...
>
> > ... written by Niko Berger has recently got support
> > for Lightning. I've put some effort into the update of the calendar
> > support. Synckolab can now read and (New!) write most of the attributes
> > of events in the Kolab XML format.
> > There is no support for ToDos in Kolab XML format yet, and there are
> > still minor limitations regarding recurring events. Please see the web
> > site for details.
>
> Now that Synckolab 0.4.23 is available I'm working on the completion of the
> format conversion. Locally I've made Synckolab using X-KOLAB-* properties
> within the events in Lightning, so _all_ data of the Kolab XML format can
> be stored. (I could need an up-to-date and complete format specification
> for Kolab XML, the one I have seems a bit outdated. Any pointers?)

The one in CVS is always the latest.
http://www.kolab.org/documentation.html
has 2.0rc3 which is current if I remember correctly.

> I've also started to work on exclusions in recurrences. The import has been
> finished, now I have to solve the export. I'm still fighting a bit with the
> Lightning code and (sometimes) with bugs in it (it's still alpha after
> all), but things are promising. Afterwards I hope to finish the conversion
> of yearly recurrence rules which would make Synckolab feature complete
> regarding the import and export of events.
>
> Also worth to mention, importing events from a Kolab calendar folder looks
> quite stable, but there are still some sync issues which can make uploads a
> pain. I hope Niko will help to solve these problems so that I can focus on
> the conversion methods.
>
> As soon as I have reached a significant improvent, I'll post a patch for
> Synckolab or better ask Niko for a new release.

Thanks for the report!
Good to know that progress is being made!
	Bernhard
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