File::Spec, Cygwin, Syntactic vs. Semantic path analysis is.

2003-01-03 Thread linda w \(cyg\)
A bit late to the party, I know, but wanted to chime in on the Cygwin File::Spec discussion. I'm 'cc'ing the cygwin list as a "heads up" for any interested parties. A more satisfactory mapping is to base "Cygwin" on Win32, not Unix. Cygwin, as an "OS interface" _partially_ supports posix mapping

Re: RFC - vCard and vCalendar - parse & generate

2003-01-03 Thread Chris Josephes
On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Jay Lawrence wrote: > And yeh, upon writing this it makes sense to move them up. The > Business::vFile module remains as the base class, but I will rename the > others to : Business::vCalendar vs. Business::vFile::vCalendar. One good thing about "Business::vFile" would be you

Re: RFC - vCard and vCalendar - parse & generate

2003-01-03 Thread Jay Lawrence
There is no official specification of the XML equivalent for the v* file formats. From what I can see the process is moving along but slowly. There is also an RSS spec in the works for these files. I am get the impression that more are using the original file format rather than XML or RSS - if

Re: RFC - vCard and vCalendar - parse & generate

2003-01-03 Thread Chris Josephes
On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Jay Lawrence wrote: > I am thinking more along the line of: > > Business::vFile:: > VCALENDAR > VFILE Isn't there an XML equivelant of the vCard specification? I know Jabber uses an XML formatted vCard for its user directory. What if you jus

Re: RFC - vCard and vCalendar - parse & generate

2003-01-03 Thread Jay Lawrence
As far as I know it is entirely standalone under 5.8.0. I will make it compatible to 5.6.1 at least and maybe 5.6.0 & lower if I have the time. As well right now I am using Apple's iCal and Address Book as my pathological examples. If you use other products and would like to supply me with samp

Re: RFC - vCard and vCalendar - parse & generate

2003-01-03 Thread darren chamberlain
* Jay Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-01-03 10:48]: > I have the basics of a v* file parser/generator underway. This stemmed > from my initial need to parse vCard files (because Apple's Address Book > can't print and I needed my xmas card labels! *** ) and ultimately > vCalendar files. These

RFC - vCard and vCalendar - parse & generate

2003-01-03 Thread Jay Lawrence
I have the basics of a v* file parser/generator underway. This stemmed from my initial need to parse vCard files (because Apple's Address Book can't print and I needed my xmas card labels! *** ) and ultimately vCalendar files. These modules will also be able to write v(Calendar|Card|\w+) files