Re: [Evolution-hackers] Introduction and Questions

["Øystein Gisnås" <oystein gisnas net>]

2007/5/31, Matthew Barnes <mbarnes redhat com>:
> On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 07:58 -0700, Ross Boylan wrote:
> > What version to start with?  I'm on Debian GNU/Linux, which currently has evo
> > 2.6.  I notice that's a bit dated (although I did see that a few months ago
> > some of the Debian packagers were interested in making a more recent
> > version).  I've been working from the Debian version.  Does that version, the
> > last stable release (from evo, not Debian), or svn head make the most sense
> > to work from?  (BTW, the one bug I fixed was one that was already fixed
> > post-2.6).
>
> FYI, Debian Unstable has Evolution 2.10.  Might be easier to grab at
> least the 2.10 dependencies from there.  You'll need to upgrade gtkhtml
> and likely also your GTK+ library stack to get 2.10 to build.

In case you're on a Debian-based distribution and not pulling from
svn, I would recommend using pre-built packages, or even building the
packages yourself. 2.10.2 is in the archive, and I will do 2.11.2 this
weekend.

For my own development setup I use the 2.10.x packages plus custom
build from svn for the module I'm hacking on. e-d-s for example, I
install to /opt/evolution-data-server. Then I can start development
e-d-s with 'LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/evolution-data-server/lib
/opt/evolution-data-server/libexec/evolution-data-server-1.12' and can
also start the stable e-d-s with
'/usr/lib/evolution/evolution-data-server-1.10'

Cheers,
Øystein