Re: [Gnumed-devel] Appointments currently depending on Korganizer

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 01:53:58PM -0700, Jim Busser wrote:

>> GNUmed does not parse ics files.
>
> Looks like the Appointments plugin accesses information obtained through 
> a command line call supported by Korganizer causing it to export its data 
> in csv format.

That's what it uses "konsolekalendar" for.

> I did find some postings about perl scripts that are able to parse Date 
> and begin-time and Time zone and Summary information for non-repeating 
> events in an iCal .ics file.
>       http://developer.apple.com/internet/appleapplications/ 
> icalendarfiles.html
>
> also
>       http://search.cpan.org/~rfrankel/iCal-Parser-1.16/lib/iCal/Parser.pm
>
> are these potentially able to generate the desired outputs?

If anything we'd use a Python module:

Package: python-vobject
Priority: optional
Section: python
Installed-Size: 268
Maintainer: Calendarserver Maintainers <address@hidden>
Architecture: all
Version: 0.8.1c-1
Depends: python (>= 2.5), python-support (>= 0.90.0), python-dateutil (>= 1.1)
Conflicts: calendarserver (<< 2.0)
Filename: pool/main/p/python-vobject/python-vobject_0.8.1c-1_all.deb
Size: 47678
MD5sum: 00692a859545ed13e4e61f1ff01f1300
SHA1: 9ab0bf07731af33304f4cbe802930c6452094d45
SHA256: a7ab0411377a9dcfe9ce883354e762bdac8c0d6335b4b90cd53f9ae7779c395d
Description: parse iCalendar and VCards in Python
 Parses iCalendar and vCard files into Python data structures, decoding the
 relevant encodings. Also serializes vobject data structures to valid iCalendar
 or vCard unicode strings.
Homepage: http://vobject.skyhouseconsulting.com/

Package: python-vobject
Priority: optional
Section: python
Installed-Size: 264
Maintainer: Guido Guenther <address@hidden>
Architecture: all
Version: 0.6.0-1
Depends: python (>= 2.4), python-dateutil (>= 1.1), python-support (>= 0.7.1)
Filename: pool/main/p/python-vobject/python-vobject_0.6.0-1_all.deb
Size: 44306
MD5sum: c0b77d65b6118f16b2d3e2b509f10abf
SHA1: 2201c399e05c1aeaa62cf2893b1a0038b52c2fb6
SHA256: 16fcdaea80d799928559a6f22765b9c47f70346e4c220e6ccaea1766dcd1f877
Description: parse iCalendar and VCards in Python
 Parses iCalendar and vCard files into Python data structures, decoding the
 relevant encodings. Also serializes vobject data structures to valid iCalendar
 or vCard unicode strings.
Tag: devel::lang:python, implemented-in::python, works-with::pim

Karsten
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