Re: [Patch] [Part 0/3] Support for Osmo address book

[Peter Bloomfield <PeterBloomfield bellsouth net>]

Hi Jack:

On 11/10/2016 03:38:21 PM Thu, Jack wrote:
> On 2016.11.10 13:55, Albrecht Dreß wrote:
> > Am 10.11.16 05:38 schrieb(en) Peter Bloomfield:
> > > Thanks for the patches, and for the negotiations with the Osmo devs!
> > >
> > > It all looks good: builds and runs, with or without Osmo support. Pushed to master!
> >
> > Wow, *that* was fast!  Thank you so much for pushing!
> >
> > > Porting Osmo from legacy GtkSpell to Gspell would be nice, but relevant only because Balsa no longer depends 
> > > on GtkSpell.
> >
> > Hmmm, please correct me if I'm wrong - but this is basically a problem for disto packagers, isn't it?  As we 
> > communicate with Osmo just by IPC, it's more or less irrelevant how it is actually implemented, right?  
> > That's what makes IPC so cool...
> >
> > Cheers
> > Albrecht.
> Albrecht,
>
> I almost sent this before seeing Peter's reply, but I do have a separate issue.  I'm trying to install Osmo 
> on my Gentoo box.  The ebuild their site links to is for 0.2.10.  I'm trying to modify it to use 0.2.14 
> (before I try for current svn version) and seem stuck on it wanting libwebkit for html rendering in order to 
> get contacts.  My understanding is that libwebkit has become libwebkitgtk.  Before I go down a rabbit hole of 
> creating bad patches and symlinks, is the svn version any different in that dependency?  Do you know if they 
> are planning on updating that?

To test the dbus mechanism, you'll need the branches/dbus branch from cvs. I used:

svn checkout svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/osmo-pim/code/branches/dbus osmo-pim-code-dbus

and then configure --enable-dbus. The webkit dependency is now "webkit2gtk-4.0 >= 2.4.0", but if it fails Osmo will still 
build, just without the contacts page; likewise the spell checker dependency is "gtkspell3-3.0 >= 3.0.0", but again it 
doesn't seem to be a build-breaker.

I wish you success in the experiment!

Peter