On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 10:03:43PM +0100, chrysn wrote: > On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 03:52:43PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > Any news on a new upstream for vobject? > > as far as i can tell, upstream is inactive; last release was in 2009. > > i've been in contact with jeffrey, he gave his ok to take over the > project, and offered the existing website to a new location. > > > Perhaps someone would be willing to take over the development of > > the project? > > i'd be happy to provide bugfixes, but i don't have the overview of the > complete thing i'd need to take over in full. > > are you more familiar with the scope of which features are used? which > api guarantees are in place? > > On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 07:53:28PM +0100, Guido Günther wrote: > > It seems radicale now supports python3 as well and I wonder what they > > use, did you check? Maybe they already maintain a fork? > > as far as i can tell, radicale doesn't fully parse the vobject but just > understands enough of it to assemble vobjects into collections, on the > base of line.startswith("UID:") and similar (see [1]). calypso is > exceptionally strict about vobject contents (bugs in calypso's or other > programs' serialization cause something like "400 Bad Request" > refusals), but that is one of the key benefits of calypso i perceive.
Thanks for checking this out. This means we're basically on our own with vobject when it comes to calypso. Cheers, -- Guido