Comments on: libgdata

By: Philip Withnall

Philip Withnall — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 07:46:37 +0000

Zeeshan: I hadn't got any immediate plans, but that's because I hadn't really thought about it. The libgdata YouTube query API is pretty much stable at the moment, so I'd be happy to help if you want to write such a plugin. I can't write one myself at the moment due to a lack of time.

Ignacius: Evolution currently uses its own internal library which is also called "libgdata". My libgdata is meant to replace the Evolution one and provide a superset of its functionality.

Michael: Last time I came across libgcal it looked unmaintained, but I see that there's now some activity around it (or I was wrong before). I'll have to talk to them.

Christian: It is a little confusing, and plays hell with GtkBuilder's automatic constructor-function-from-class-name code, but I can't really change the name of Google's protocol.

By: Christian

Christian — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 01:36:14 +0000

Imho GData is really misnamed. When reading "libgdata" in the title of the post I was thinking of something glibish whilest this should be GoogleData instead.

By: Michael Banck

Michael Banck — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 23:05:38 +0000

As another example of a C library for accessing Google data (though I am not sure what else besides events and contacts it does currently), see libgcal, http://code.google.com/p/libgcal/

By: Matthew Barnes

Matthew Barnes — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 22:55:17 +0000

That's great news! I'm looking forward to seeing the E-D-S backend ported. The Evolution team is short staffed these days and the more pieces we can outsource to actively maintained libraries, the better.

By: Ignacius

Ignacius — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 22:42:03 +0000

I though Evolution was already using libgdata. At least it gets installed on my ubuntu when installing Evolution. Or is it another libgdata?

By: Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 21:55:29 +0000

Cool stuff! Any plans to make a youtube plugin for Rygel based on libgdata?