On 18 Jun 2001 14:55:41 -0300, Sergio A. Kessler wrote:
> > it will always be
> > possible to write scripts that access and/or manipulate the addressbook
> > contents, irregardless of what format Evolution is using to store it.
>
> yup, but trough evolution...
> you are doing the contrary of what standards bodies (like w3c) are doing,
> ie. they define a format, leaving the access implementation to authors
Isn't that the way that most folks prefer?
> I'm dreaming about a "there should be only one" addressbook,
No offense, but it seems more like "one size fits all" and that rarely
ever works right.
> and I repeat, evolution is in a strong position to define a de facto
> standard for addressbook format, but that format can't be a binary
> format because it broke interoperability and accesibility for
> others emails programs...
Setting "de facto" standards isn't good enough either. If there's no
RFC (or no IEEE spec) then there's no standard and any way of doing
things is equally valid. If a tool that can easily extract the data and
parse it into whatever format I like is easily created, then why should
the evolution folks be expected to write the addressbook another way?
Just playing devil's advocate,
B
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