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From: David Engster <deng@randomsample.de>
Subject: Re: org-caldav will cease to work with Google Calendar
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 19:05:06 +0100
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Vincent Beffara writes:
> But it _can_ list my calendars, meaning that it can authenticate and
> have some sort of interaction with google's servers. Maybe interfacing
> with that would not be too hard?

Supporting the Google Calendar API in org-caldav wouldn't be hard. It's
actually a very clean, RESTful service; much better than CalDAV, in
fact. Just what you would expect from Google.

However, this is not a technical issue. This is also why I said that
anyone who wants to implement support for the Google Calendar API in
org-caldav should fork it; I won't accept pull requests which implement
that.

If Google decides to discontinue a well established, IETF-standardized
API in favor of a proprietary one for which there exist no free server
implementations, I will not support that. I think the best solution for
anyone using Google Calendar is to migrate away from that service.

-David