On Sun, 2011-04-03 at 18:53 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > Hi Andrew, > discussing with Enrico, we noticed that there is at present no > works-with-format::ical debtag, to identify all apps able to process > ical files. The standard procedure to propose a suitable new tag is at > http://debtags.alioth.debian.org/faq.html#what-makes-a-tag-good-for-being-added-to-the-vocabulary > but the problem is that neither I nor Enrico know much about calendar > formats. > > So, if you don't mind, we're coming to you for help with a few > questions:
No problem! > - would "ical" be an appropriate name for such a format or should it > rather be something else? The format is officially called 'iCalendar' - "ical" is the name of a program by Apple. On the other hand I think that common use probably means they've lost any trademark protection they might have had on that... > - if we go ahead and add "ical", should be also add some other related > formats? vcard, I think, but with vcard you have to be a little careful about versions. vcard2 and vcard3 A new standard for calendaring is xcalendar. Not ratified yet, but it will be in due course - essentially it's a transform of iCalendar into XML. Nothing works with it yet though, so little point adding a format for it, I guess :-) > - do you have an initial list of packages to suggest that could form an > initial set of debtagged packages for the debtags we are going to > introduce? Well, I guess culling from "apt-cache search calendar" will be more successful than "apt-cache search icalendar" icedove, evolution, davical, calendarserver, radicale, akonadi, korganizer, chandler, kronolith, roundcube ... emacs There are many candidates, and more once you start getting into library software :-) Cheers, Andrew. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ http://andrew.mcmillan.net.nz/ Porirua, New Zealand Twitter: _karora Phone: +64(272)DEBIAN Every solution breeds new problems. ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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