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Re: Non CDE?
- To: Alan.Harder@Corp (Alan Harder)
- Subject: Re: Non CDE?
- From: jnovosel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Joe Novosel)
- Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 19:55:05 -0500 (EST)
- Cc: pilotmgr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Branson.Matheson@xxxxxxxxxxx
- In-reply-to: <199801082240.OAA20855@moshpit.Corp.Sun.COM> from "Alan Harder" at Jan 8, 98 02:40:54 pm
>
>
> From Branson.Matheson@xxxxxxxxxxx:
> > Is there ANY work being done on pilotmanager to make it work OUTSIDE
> > of CDE? I can use ical for the calendar, but some of this
> > functionality sounds really cool and I would LOVE to have it for my
> > Fbsd box.
>
> From Alan Robertson <alanr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > Only the Calendar Manager conduit requires CDE. You don't have to use it, and
> > if you wrote an ical conduit for pilotmanager, then you'd be completely set.
>
> Thanks Alan, you are quite correct!
>
> CDE is required *only* for SyncCM!! This just happens to be the conduit
> which makes PilotManager most useful for a large percentage of the users..
>
> It would be *great* to see more conduit developers out there.. see the
> docs/Conduit.api file for info on how to write one.. it is quite easy!
> You have plenty of sample code included with PilotManager too!
>
At the very least it would be nice if SyncCM would work with the version of
CDE that almost everyone has instead of one that either only Sun employees
can get or by "upgrading" to Solaris 2.6.
Heck, I don't even use the CDE calendar (or CDE), I use the CalanderManager that
comes with Open Windows.
Joe Novosel
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