[turba] Title

Chuck Hagenbuch chuck at horde.org
Thu Oct 25 14:16:22 UTC 2007


Quoting Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:

>> So the question should probably be: Which standard should be followed?
>>
>> Personally, I'd go for something widely used and open. To my mind,
>> if  turba uses vcard as its means of importing and exporting
>> contacts, it  should comply to that standard internally as well. It
>> would mean that  there is no need to translate or map from any
>> internal turba fields to  vcard as vcard is already what turba uses.
>>
>> And it would be easy to answer any questions like 'what sort of
>> fields  are available in turba? What standard does it follow?'. The
>> answer  would be simply (e.g.): vCard Version 3, please read RFCs
>> 2425 and  2426 for further information.
>
> After sleeping a night over this mess, I think I agree. The point of
> updating the default scheme was to make synching easier, and sane sync
> clients use vCard too.
>
> I'm gonna take a look at which fields are missing from the RFCs to see
> if we really want to implement each and every possible field.

I agree wholeheartedly. Thanks!

-chuck


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