ics Calendar files

[balanga]

What are the recommended ways of handling .ics calendar files on FreeBSD?

 

[aragats]

What are the recommended ways of handling .ics calendar files on FreeBSD?

Good question! I guess, it depends on what are you using them for.
There are some Python-based solutions, e.g. a fully functional deskutils/py-khal, but I hate installing 80MB+ packages just to read start/end time I need when I get a .ics file.
I'm using a simple Python script which requires devel/py-icalendar:

import sys
from icalendar import Calendar, Event

ics_file = open(sys.argv[1],'r')
cal = Calendar.from_ical(ics_file.read())
for item in cal.walk('vevent'):
    print("Summary:", item.get('summary'))
    print("item.get('description'))
    print("Start:  ", item.decoded('dtstart').strftime("%a, %b %d, %Y %H:%M %Z"))
    print("End:    ", item.decoded('dtend').strftime("%a, %b %d, %Y %H:%M %Z"))
ics_file.close()

 

[balanga]

Thanks.

I wondered if there was such a thing as a Calendar Server?

 

[tommiie]

What would this "calendar server" do exactly?

 

[Phishfry]

These all can use iCalendar format
deskutils/korganizer
mail/evolution/
deskutils/gnome-calendar
deskutils/calcurse
Servers
www/baikal
www/calendarserver
www/davical