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Re: [VCARDDAV] vCard3->4 changes

Cyrus Daboo <cyrus@daboo.name> Wed, 29 September 2010 15:48 UTC

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Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 11:49:01 -0400
From: Cyrus Daboo <cyrus@daboo.name>
To: Rohit Khare <Rohit@Khare.org>, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
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Subject: Re: [VCARDDAV] vCard3->4 changes
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Hi Rohit,

--On September 29, 2010 7:48:27 AM -0700 Rohit Khare <Rohit@Khare.org> 
wrote:

> Or, more functionally, something developers are used to shredding with
> grep; and users are able to edit in a plain text editor. There's a lot
> more change under the hood than the version # increment might indicate.

I would consider it a huge bug in any product that exposed a "raw" vcard to 
a user to edit. I would never expect users to know how to deal with 
character escaping/quoting, line folding, structured data formatting, etc. 
It is fine for us developers who are willingly to go read the two existing 
specs (which we have compressed into a much more manageable one in v4) and 
are happy tinkering with things like that, and able to cope with the 
consequences of breaking something.

-- 
Cyrus Daboo

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