{"id":313,"date":"2016-02-25T23:43:47","date_gmt":"2016-02-26T03:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fitzsim.org\/blog\/?p=313"},"modified":"2016-02-25T23:43:47","modified_gmt":"2016-02-26T03:43:47","slug":"excorporate-0-7-0-released-in-gnu-elpa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fitzsim.org\/blog\/?p=313","title":{"rendered":"Excorporate 0.7.0 released in GNU ELPA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finished getting Excorporate and all its dependencies into GNU ELPA.  Excorporate lets Emacs retrieve calendar items from an Exchange server.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fitzsim.org\/screenshots\/excorporate-in-elpa-2016-02-25.png\" alt=\"Excorporate in GNU ELPA\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I had to rewrite the default UI to use Org Mode, because Calfw isn&#8217;t entirely copyright-assigned to the FSF yet.  The Calfw UI is still there for reference, but as a text file so that GNU ELPA&#8217;s build and publishing steps ignore it.  Both UI handlers use the same updated APIs from the main <code>excorporate.el<\/code> library.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fitzsim.org\/screenshots\/excorporate-org-mode-2016-02-25.png\" alt=\"Excorporate Org handler\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I made sure Excorporate and all its dependencies use only features available since GNU Emacs 24.1.  This is pretty good coverage; Emacs 24.1 introduced the packaging system, so if an Emacs version supports packages, it supports Excorporate.<\/p>\n<p>Other than DNS lookups, Excorporate is completely asynchronous, so it won&#8217;t block the Emacs main loop.  And it is pure Emacs Lisp so it runs on any operating system that Emacs does.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Org Mode support, release 0.7.0 collects all the suggestions users have made on this blog and adds Exchange 2007 support.<\/p>\n<p>To install: <code>M-x package-install RET excorporate<\/code><\/p>\n<p>To get the source code:<\/p>\n<p><code>git clone git:\/\/git.savannah.gnu.org\/emacs\/elpa.git<\/code><\/p>\n<p>To report bugs: <code>M-x report-emacs-bug<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finished getting Excorporate and all its dependencies into GNU ELPA. Excorporate lets Emacs retrieve calendar items from an Exchange server. I had to rewrite the default UI to use Org Mode, because Calfw isn&#8217;t entirely copyright-assigned to the FSF yet. The Calfw UI is still there for reference, but as a text file so &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fitzsim.org\/blog\/?p=313\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Excorporate 0.7.0 released in GNU ELPA&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emacs","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzsim.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzsim.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzsim.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzsim.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzsim.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzsim.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzsim.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions\/330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzsim.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzsim.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzsim.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}