Balsa port to gmime-2.4

[Pawel Salek <pawsa theochem kth se>]

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