[Remind-Fans] any script to convert ics to rem format?

senator galt senator.galt at gmail.com
Thu Feb 14 16:08:16 EST 2008


On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 11:37 AM, Justin Alcorn <justin at jalcorn.net> wrote:
> rem2ics.pl can handle a directory full of .ics files.  But if a specific
>  event is referred to more than once, it will create 2 separate .rem file
>  entries.   When you receive a meeting update, you now have 2 separate
>  .ics files referring to the same event?  I didn't know that was even
>  possible.
I get an email (with .ics attachment) with the meeting is created.
I get another email (with another .ics attachment) with the latest
updates to meeting.

>  rem2ics.pl writes out REM statements as it encounters events.  To handle
>  the situation you are describing, it would have to build a structure in
>  memory, using unique IDs, and then apply changes to existing events.
yes. we'll need something like this.

>  Not impossible, but not something I need, so probably not something I'll
>  spend any time on in the near future.   The code is Open Source, so
>  anyone is welcome to modify it and release the changes.
No problem. I'm just checking if there is a script that does this.
I'm not particular that your ics2rem script should include this functionality.



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