On 21 Nov 2009, at 22:53, Scott Haneda wrote:
Can someone list the pros and cons of using DCS versus using the built in calender server on OS X Server on Snow Leopard?
Or are they the same source perhaps? ... If the answer is that OS X Server is the same, I may go that way for integration simplicity. If not, I'd like to start work on a MacPorts Portfile for DCS.
My understanding is that the DCS in OS X Server is the same as that at calendarserver.org, BUT the version in OS X Server is a nice stable release and its shipped with some nice GUI management utilities (which are unavailable for the source version). DCS at calendarserver.org can run on Linux, or on Mac OS X if you can't afford the server version of OS X. If you have access to OS X Server I don't see why you'd install it manually from calendarserver.org instead. My opinion / perception: the calendarserver.org version would be great for Linux users / sys admins if someone packaged it properly, but that's obviously not something that Apple are interested in providing. I believe there may be some Debian packages, but I don't know how good they are. I'm not really clear WHY Apple provide the calendarserver.org open-source version, because it seems fairly clearly like it's not intended to be an easy solution for end users, and all I read here is of people having pain with it. I would be glad to be corrected by other list members if I've misunderstood the situation. Stroller.