From kde-core-devel  Mon Jan 03 15:40:01 2005
From: Shaheed <srhaque () iee ! org>
Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 15:40:01 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: kdepim buffers patch
Message-Id: <200501031540.01988.srhaque () iee ! org>
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On Monday 03 January 2005 09:15, Adriaan de Groot wrote:

> All the ical patches look ok, but there's one caveat: libical is a big
> chunk of source from elsewhere which is in an odd state of maintainership.
> Every time someone wants to patch libical, the question of whether to merge
> upstream (or to import a newer version of the upstream lib) is raised.

As far as I am concerned, we should forget upstream libical. I put of lot of 
time and energy into trying to sync up, but there was insufficient interest 
from the maintainers to complete the work.

Though I have since deleted my local copy of the changes, IIRC all the main 
changes were fixes from us (Reinhold, mostly ;-)) to them, except for a major 
rearchitecture of the way timezones were handled. We have our own solution 
for that now, and it gets more testing than upstream.

Finally, the other clients of upstream showed only lukewarm interest in a 
multiway sync. Its all in the archives somewhere if anyone is interested.

Thanks, Shaheed