Update on Grantlee and what I've been doing with Akonadi and python
Stephen Kelly
Those of you who saw my talk at python-ireland in April might be interested to
see another demo of the grantlee template system and the talk I did in Gran
Canaria at the GCDS in July:
http://steveire.wordpress.com/2009/08/11/email-rendering-with-grantlee/
I actually wrote the first lines of code for that demo in the 10 minutes
before my python ireland talk :).
Also if you have followed KDE 4 at all and wondered why it requires a MySql
server, the reason for that is Akonadi (http://akonadi-project.org).
Akonadi stores PIM data and allows access to it though an IMAP-like and D-Bus
interface. It's going to fix KMail !! :)
We already have a C++/Qt API for communicating with the Akonadi server over
IMAP and D-Bus, but a little while ago I started a proof of concept python API
using twisted to proove that it could be done. The result is best described
here:
http://steveire.wordpress.com/2009/10/13/cross-platform-akonadi-video/
In theory we want this system to be used by Evolution too, but none of us know
anything about GNOME APIs to write the stuff, so I wrote a python version.
Clearly I don't know anything about Gtk UIs either :)
All the best,
Steve.
PS: The last two projects I've started have been "Port a python API to Qt" and
"Port a Qt API to Python". Funny that.