Re: Re: iCal export of repeated tasks

[Adam Spiers <orgmode@adamspiers.org>]

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 11:55:19AM +0200, Paul R wrote:
> [...] you can maybe implement a "go-between" layer that
> takes iCal file in input, and outputs the same iCal file with repeated
> events changed to dated events, with date set on next occurence.

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 02:56:09PM +0200, Paul R wrote:
> This is a good use-case, and once again, I consider org export should
> provide full information, and later a convert tools should
> degrade/adapt it to the target software or device. Implementing such a
> processing in every calendaring tools would be a massive duplication.
> The "iCal to iCal" converter is the way to go, IMO.

I see your point.  The main disadvantage is that it doesn't work if
you want to apply the filter to the view in the client which
originally generated the iCal from the "master" event data (in our
case, org-mode) - you'd have to export it, pass it through the filter,
then reimport it ...