On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Rich Bowen wrote: > We had discussed, at some length, over on Reefknot, about making these > things storable, and that's an ongoing consideration. Putting an object > in the object is all well and good, as long as there is a simple > strinification that we can do, and store in a database, or text file, or > palm device. Makes sense for this to be the ICal representation, IMHO.
That sounds fine to me, as long as its not the core interface for constructing objects. I really dislike the way Date::Set relies on the ICal recurrence syntax for constructing objects and adding events. That syntax is way too confusing for humans to use, and we should use _data structures_, not complex strings. Now, accepting standards-based strings _in addition_ is great, and I would consider supporting ICal strings very high priority, since I want all this code to be useful for the Reefknot project as well. -dave /*======================= House Absolute Consulting www.houseabsolute.com =======================*/
