Re: [coldsync-hackers] OT: vcard conduit

[Andrew Arensburger <arensb+CShackers@ooblick.com>]

On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 07:55:07AM -0400, Rich Bowen wrote:
> As one of the Net::ICal developers, I should tell you that Net::ICal is in such
> a disarrayed state at the moment that, no, we would not appreciate someone
> hacking on it to support some other format. Getting it to understant iCalendar
> format is a pretty high priority right now.

	Okay, so maybe I'm on crack. Just ignore me.

On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 07:55:07AM -0400, Rich Bowen wrote:
> On Sat, 26 May 2001 01:45:54 -0400, Andrew Arensburger said:
> >  	I don't know of anyone working on this at the moment,
> >  unfortunately, and a search for "vCard" at CPAN turns up nothing.
> >  	IIRC, though, the vCard and iCalendar formats are fairly
> >  similar. If you want to hack on Net::ICal to make it understand
> >  vCards, I'm sure the developers would appreciate it.
> 
> And, after looking at this a little more, I fail to see how vCard and iCalendar
> are related at all. There's a thing called vCalendar which is a calendaring
> thingy, but vCard is an addressbook thing, not anything related to calendaring
> and scheduling.

	Again, maybe I'm smoking something really odd, but I seemed to
remember that they were kinda related, at least in structure:

	BEGIN:CALENDAR
	FIELD0:VALUE0
	FIELD1:VALUE1
	END:CALENDAR

vs.

	BEGIN:VCARD
	FIELD0:VALUE0
	FIELD1:VALUE1
	END:VCARD

Plus, isn't it possible to include vCards in a calendar, to represent
such things as "here's the list of people who attended such-and-such
meeting"?

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