Greetings, > Pardon the markety intrusion... Extensibility is very much in the cards, > and I think importers are a good place to start, because there's always > another file format, etc. to import, so it makes sense to have that > extensible. > > I'd start, however, with Evolution 1.5.x and evolution-data-server, where > the APIs are much more accessible and it just makes more sense to extend > in any given language... for reference see the panel code that integrates > with the Evolution calendar, and the OpenOffice.org mail-merge from > Evolution addressbook...
I totally agree with you here, we should be able to write stuff in any language that works with it (if only we had C in Mono and could use class libraries... :P) > Python *looks* like a toy language, definitely, but all the hackers I've > known who have reluctantly used it have grown to like it after a week or > so (cf Red Carpet). Still, you might want to consider looking into C#, > since there's quite a bit of evolution-C# work going on and that's quite > exciting these days. I love python, I think it's one of the best languages, It's nicely functional while still nice to write code in, While it's whitespace enforcement is a bit weird to someone of a C background, it really is quite nice and in most cases you indent the crap anyway so it really doesn't matter. I also see C# stuff happening, given evolution/mono are both novellish things, and if they won't use it, i don't think anyone else has much hope :) personally I find C# a bit too verbose in areas and tends to annoy me abit :) (variable names, etc) but for things like simple GUI/Database/IM sortof APIs its great and you can't go past it, I'm sure my opinion on that will change as I use it more :) Cheers, Trent _______________________________________________ evolution-hackers maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
