I was wondering if there’s an interest in a true synchronization solution for Tracks? So that you could add/remove/check-off to-do’s in iCal and/or anything else you sync with your Mac. I am trying to decide if it’s worth investing my limited free time into implementing something like this.

I think it would be great, but hard to do reliably.

sudarkoff - 12 August 2006 06:14 AM

I was wondering if there’s an interest in a true synchronization solution for Tracks? So that you could add/remove/check-off to-do’s in iCal and/or anything else you sync with your Mac. I am trying to decide if it’s worth investing my limited free time into implementing something like this.

As far as I know, nobody that offers webcal subscriptions has a syncronization facility.  I don’t even know if it is part of the spec or if it is something that could (in the future?) be done in CalDAV.

Google, Backpack, none of those guys do. I am kind of PIM-norant about the CalDAV spec but I think that is functionality included in that system.  So getting CalDAV support into Tracks would solve the problem, though I don’t know of many desktop CalDAV-compliant clients.

But again, I could be totally out of my mind.

bsag - 12 August 2006 02:31 PM

I think it would be great, but hard to do reliably.

I am not sure I understand why it could be hard to do reliably.

emory - 12 August 2006 02:47 PM

... getting CalDAV support into Tracks would solve the problem, though I don’t know of many desktop CalDAV-compliant clients.

I guess I need to look at CalDAV (although I am not a Ruby developer, so I won’t be of much help there). As far as CalDAV-complient clients go, iCal in Leopard will have CalDAV support. See also http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/collaboration/wiki/CalendarClients

sudarkoff - 12 August 2006 10:55 PM

emory - 12 August 2006 02:47 PM

... getting CalDAV support into Tracks would solve the problem, though I don’t know of many desktop CalDAV-compliant clients.

I guess I need to look at CalDAV (although I am not a Ruby developer, so I won’t be of much help there). As far as CalDAV-complient clients go, iCal in Leopard will have CalDAV support. See also http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/collaboration/wiki/CalendarClients

Yes, so in the meantime, you’ll be using Sunbird or Chandler. 

You can download the CalDAV server now from MacOS Forge.  It runs great on Tiger Server in my tests.