[vox-tech] CalDAV

[Nick Schmalenberger]

On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 10:15:37PM -0400, Peter Salzman wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 4:28 PM, Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:
> > I wrote:
> >
> > And that's just not happening.  Everyone wants to make a groupware suite
> > that does absolutely everything, wants to take over the world, and has
> > incredibly picky and incredibly extensive requirements.  I cannot just
> > drop Bedework, or Bongo Project, or Cosmo, or Dingo Calendar Server, or
> > ScalableOGo, or EGroupware into my old PIII server and have any of
> > those play well with my existing server configuration.  Almost all
> > insist on a specific back-end database, and many want LDAP-based
> > directory services.
> 
> Update.
> 
> This is about right.  Bedework is unsuitable for my needs.  It's too
> big of a framework.  Very intensive.  The developers say it requires
> its own dedicated server, which is why it's not offered by webhosting
> companies.  There's no such thing as a server that runs Bedework for
> multiple clients, and from what I've read, I don't exactly want to run
> it on my desktop machine.  Sigh.  It does look like a conquer the
> world type application though.  Very impressive, but you hit the nail
> squarely on the head with the above paragraph.
> 
> I looked into mod_caldav.  The documentation is spotty, but from what
> I can tell, it requires a patched Apache server?!?  I've seen messages
> of people who were compiling Apache to run mod_caldav, and that looks
> like a whole can of worms too.
> 
> I started to look into the Ubuntu calendarserver package.  Still
> trying to figure out how to set it up and whatnot; documentation
> sucks, but I think it might be the most fruitful avenue to caldav out
> of the three options I've looked at so far.
>
Has anybody tried davical? How does it compare? I just tried
"apt-cache search caldav" and radicale also comes up, besides
calendarserver.
Nick