Balsa port to gmime-2.4
- From: Pawel Salek <pawsa theochem kth se>
- To: balsa-list gnome org
- Subject: Balsa port to gmime-2.4
- Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 09:08:14 +0100
Hello all,
Balsa faces the necessity to port to gmime-2.4 which is not
backward-compatible with currently used gmime-2.0. We have a patch
porting balsa to gmime-2.4 [1] but we hesitate to merge it to svn in
order not to cause difficulties of the users who are still at gmime-2.0
. Maintaining the patch in a long term will be however a nuisance - the
patch has already been revised six or seven times. So, it will
eventually be merged.
The questions are: when? and how?
We could merge it sooner and then provide gmime-2.4 packages for the
benefit of the users who are still using gmime-2.0. We could merge it
sooner and encourage the distributions who want to add new balsa to
older distributions to link statically against 2.4 (i.e. gmime-2.4
would be a part of balsa package, at it was for example in fedora at
some stage).
We could also merge it later (say, March-May 2009) and maintain the
patch in meantime.
Opinions?
Pawel
[1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=537507
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