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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: kab and Aethera and Kapital
From:       Rik Hemsley <rik () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-04-13 17:45:39
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#if Shawn Gordon
> Hi all,
> 
> We've gotten a lot of requests to share a single address book between 
> Aethera and Kapital and that we also make use of kab as that 
> repository.  This makes a lot of sense, but on a cursory examination of 
> kab, it doesn't have near enough information to support the Kapital address 
> book.  Now before we just jump in and start changing it to suite our needs, 
> I would like to see what the situation is with kab and if what we are 
> talking about would be viewed as a good or bad thing. Thanks!

Sounds like a good thing to me...

I've written large parts of an implementation of my idea for a kab
replacement, which supports multiple addressbooks, per-addressbook
user-defined formats and pluggable storage backends. There's only one
backend in existance at the moment, 'file' - which is concurrent-access
and NFS safe and seems to work well. An LDAP backend would be easy. Next
I need to think about the design of the searching interface and decide
whether I should be interfacing with kdedb or Qt 3's DB stuff for a DB
backend.

Perhaps we could discuss whether the approach I have taken will be
suited to the needs of Aethera, Kapital, etc., and if not, how I
should proceed ?

Rik

 
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