Re: [Evolution-hackers] PIM application suite

[William Jon McCann <mccannwj pha jhu edu>]

Rodney Dawes wrote:
> It's not a replacement, because it's a subset. Evolution is the gnome
> address book,
> calendar, and mail app. There is no doubt about that really. It's
> basically been that
> way for a while now, and we will be in the gnome.org desktop release
> soon as well. The
> only reason we weren't in 2.6, was because we didn't have the time to
> get 2.0 done in
> that time frame, because of all the changes and the bounties. And, as I
> stated above,
> gaim can work with evolution-data-server if you build the plug-in and
> enable it. And
> we are moving in the direction of totally separate apps. We just don't
> have the time
> to go full-haul for 2.0, or 2.2 really.
>
> -- dobey

Hi Rodney,

Thank you for the very informative message.  It is very useful to know 
this type of long term strategy.  And this particular case is very 
interesting.

Are there bugs for these types of goals?  It might be helpful to have a 
tracker bug for this.  It might help get more contributers involved.


Jon