[Tickets #4193] RESOLVED: Allow publishing via iCalendar

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Ticket URL: https://dev.horde.org/horde/whups/ticket/?id=4193
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 Ticket             | 4193
 Updated By         | Chuck Hagenbuch <chuck at horde.org>
 Summary            | Allow publishing via iCalendar
 Queue              | Kronolith
 Version            | HEAD
 Type               | Enhancement
-State              | Feedback
+State              | Rejected
 Priority           | 1. Low
 Owners             | 
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Chuck Hagenbuch <chuck at horde.org> (2006-09-21 17:59) wrote:

> I chose ics.php to be consistent for things like iCal and Kontact to 
> use the same URL for publish and subscribe.  I spoke with Jan in IRC 
> back when this ticket was opened.  It was his opinion that this was 
> too hacky to be included and he pointed me to some work done to fully 
> support CalDAV.  The CalDAV mechanism will also support the 
> functionality that I enabled in ics.php.  As such perhaps this ticket 
> should be cancelled.

Okay. I'll do so for now.

> The only real redeeming quality of this patch is that it supports 
> publishing ICS without requiring DAV.  It's up to you whether this is 
> something that Horde would want to support.  I got the impression 
> that future releases of Horde will drop ics.php in favor of the 
> CalDAV access (it appears to be backwards compatible with the ics.php 
> functionality), but does add a dependency on WebDAV PEAR libs being 
> installed.

I don't think that requiring the PEAR package is a problem, but if there
are clients that support PUT but not DAV, it might be worth supporting
them.

> Regarding CSV did you mean ICS?  I did not do anything to support CSV 
> in my patch.

I was referring to the $file_types array at the top of the patch.