timofonic timofonic wrote: > OpenSync is used by a large number of apps, including Mozilla Sunbird.
[...] > It could be interesting if certain apps have built-in support for > Remind. Anyone could provide more info about this? That would be interesting, but I think very difficult. Remind (IMO) is not primarily a calendaring application --- it's a scripting language. Its design is quite hard to reconcile with mainstream calendar applications for a number of reasons: 1) Remind is primarily a language interpreter designed to let you express reminders as flexibly as possible. Ideally, it should handle every conceivable exception or scheduling rule. (It's not a Turing-complete language because then we would never know whether or not a Remind script would terminate...) 2) Remind's OMIT context affects scheduling in ways difficult to sync to other applications. Various other global variables also affect context. 3) Remind's expression language is essentially impossible to replicate in other applications. Think [moondate(0)] AT [sunset(moondate(0))]. I think the best you can hope for is to convert other applications' schedules into REM statements. Going the other way (from Remind to another app) is much trickier; you either have to post-process the output of "remind -p" (in which case you lose all the recurrence logic) or write very nasty code to handle the REMs that are possible to represent and "flatten" the rest. I do have a vague notion to extract Remind code into a library that parses reminder files and gives you data structures you can use for export. But I haven't gotten around to it yet, and I still have no solution for complex reminders with expression-substitution. Regards, David. _______________________________________________ Remind-fans mailing list [email protected] http://lists.whatexit.org/mailman/listinfo/remind-fans
