I could go on a rant about my feelings about Apple and its follow through on certain items (so much potential).
I understand your answers. I will try to build a calendar server next year at some point because I believe it is still the best server to build compared to the open source ones out there. ---- Doug Reid HaaF Consulting, LLC Computer Consulting Winfield, KS doug.r...@haafconsulting.com C 620-218-2887 > On Dec 17, 2018, at 4:27 PM, Andre LaBranche <d...@apple.com> wrote: > > Hi, > >> On Nov 27, 2018, at 6:58 AM, Doug Reid <doug.r...@haafconsulting.com >> <mailto:doug.r...@haafconsulting.com>> wrote: >> >> Questions >> ========== >> - What is the expected timeframe to complete the move to python3.x? > > I would say that currently there is no expectation (that I'm aware of, at > least). That's not a comment on the difficulty or scope of the task, but > rather about there being no real active development on the project. > >> Implementation of a calendar services can wait for now. >> - Is there any plans to look at swift instead of python? > > The previous answer applies here also... > > I'll add that personally I would question the value of any kind of Python to > Swift rewrite effort for CalendarServer. Server-side swift is still > relatively new (and less portable), and while I have no problems with the > language itself, CalendarServer leans heavily on the Python ecosystem. To > paraphrase Miles Davis, the important part here is "not the notes you play > software you write, it's the notes you don't play software you don't write". > > ... also in the case of this particular code base, I don't think there's a > lot of regret sitting around that would justify a rewrite. Sure, there are a > few gross parts, but by and large it is well organized and well tested > (personally I have contributed very little in terms of lines of code, though > I am pretty familiar with the bulk of it). > >> I am implementing my php classes in swift for web development. I >> think when I get past the learning curve it will be much better than php. > > That stands to reason :) Even though Python is significantly older than PHP, > I would opine that Python is more relevant and appropriate today than PHP is, > even just for web stuff. I'm not saying Swift is a bad choice for your > project, either :) > > -dre >
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