On Sun, 2004-04-18 at 14:04, Rodrigo Moya wrote: > On Sun, 2004-04-18 at 13:29 -0400, Christopher Ness wrote: > > > > Why should the calendar program need to know how a contact record is > > stored in the Contact DB? It shouldn't, it calls the interface with the > > contacts ID and it is returned the record in the agreed upon way based > > on the programming interface Specs. Some people call this "contract > > programing" I believe. > > > that is exactly what Evolution does. There is an API for accessing > calendar, contacts, etc, and any app that wants to access them uses > that. There's no need to have to know DB formats and stuff like that.
That was just a made up example for my sermon.
Are you guys developing generic GUI interfaces for it that can be called
like "Open File" and "Save File" in Gnome - only for contacts,
calendars, tasks - {new,edit,delete}. That would be sweet.
Where can I read more about eds?
Cheers,
Chris
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