So Close

I've been searching for a calendar server or web app for some time, now, something that can be used to track my own schedule as well as others in my house.

Ideally, in a perfect world, this thing would have my auth info and talk SOAP to the calendar at work and other places, so I could log appointments with varying opacity on those calendars too. No, I think I can't begin to imagine more than one layer of indirection there.

But then I saw Plans on Freshmeat.net. Look at it: It's gorgeous. It looks usable and well-laid-out - which is really half the work - and also supports things like multi-day events, email notices and downloading to popular software packages.

Then I noticed it was in perl. Given my past problems with this-week's-release of GLIB and how I can't get GAIM and GIMP to work at the same time, and given the problems at work with version incompatibilities between software releases shorter than 5 years apart and how a C source compile worked unmodified over 10 years (and counting) as a backup tool, I'm really considering whether I want to invite this kind of hell upon myself.

I think I'll wait for something written in a language that's been stabilized.