[Gllug] ical!

[Richard Jones]

On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 06:17:45PM +0100, Tethys wrote:
> 
> Richard Jones writes:
> 
> >After many years happily using ical, it's been removed from Debian
> >unstable.  (I tried for about 1/2 hour to compile it from Red Hat's
> >SRPM, but gave up eventually - seems to be sensitive to old glibc
> >bugs).
> 
> Compile it? But it's 100% Tcl. If nothing else, you should be able
> to take the "binary" RPM, and rpm2cpio it to extract it on Debian.
> Or use Alien, but I don't know how well that works.

Unfortunately not. It seems to contain a bunch of C++ code. I'm
not sure what for - perhaps custom widgets or something.

/me considers writing an ical clone ... (in OCaml of course!)

> BTW, I agree -- there's nothing these days that comes close to ical
> in terms of features and easy of use. Gnomecal was looking promising
> for a while (although it still had a way to go), but then they
> discontinued it and recommended people use Evolution instead. D'oh!
> How to shoot yourself in the foot in 1 easy step. If I wanted a
> calendar app with a 110MB memory footprint, I'd be looking straight
> to Redmond...

Chuckles ...

Rich.

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