On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, Puneet Kishor wrote:
> any move afoot to create an iCal .ics file parser in Perl to
> automagically create web calendars?
Check out Net::ICal by Shane Landrum. The library, and for that matter the
file format, predates the new Apple application by at least a year or two.
Development has been more or less idle for a while now, but with all the
hype iCal is getting, the Perl stuff might get moving again.
If you're interested, also check out reefknot.org, which hosts development
for Net::ICal and related libraries, provides documentation, RFCs, sample
code, etc, and of course has the requisite mailing lists.
The cool think about ical-the-format is that it's relatively easy to get
it running into & out of major applications like Outlook/Exchange, Notes,
Palm Desktop, Ximian Evolution, etc. If an open source calendar server
application were to emerge -- and yes, people are working on this too --
then we'd have an open protocol like IMAP & LDAP that would allow people
to break out of having to use beasts like Exchange and Domino.
A big step along the way towards developing such an open calendar server
will be to flesh out libraries such as Net::ICal, so any effort to get it
rolling again would be a welcome thing.
--
Chris Devers
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-- Bob Stanfield
