[Vobject] Bug#747554: python-vobject: python3 branch

[chrysn]

On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 03:52:43PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> Any news on a new upstream for vobject?

as far as i can tell, upstream is inactive; last release was in 2009.

i've been in contact with jeffrey, he gave his ok to take over the
project, and offered the existing website to a new location.

> Perhaps someone would be willing to take over the development of
> the project?

i'd be happy to provide bugfixes, but i don't have the overview of the
complete thing i'd need to take over in full.

are you more familiar with the scope of which features are used? which
api guarantees are in place?

On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 07:53:28PM +0100, Guido Günther wrote:
> It seems radicale now supports python3 as well and I wonder what they
> use, did you check? Maybe they already maintain a fork?

as far as i can tell, radicale doesn't fully parse the vobject but just
understands enough of it to assemble vobjects into collections, on the
base of line.startswith("UID:") and similar (see [1]). calypso is
exceptionally strict about vobject contents (bugs in calypso's or other
programs' serialization cause something like "400 Bad Request"
refusals), but that is one of the key benefits of calypso i perceive.

best regards
chrysn

[1] https://github.com/Kozea/Radicale/blob/master/radicale/ical.py#L66

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