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

[Jack <ostroffjh users sourceforge net>]

Peter and Albrecht,

On 2016.11.10 16:09, Peter Bloomfield wrote:
> 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!
I've been stuck with a system half way between KDE4 and Frameworks for  
a while.  I've got as much of the new stuff running as I can, but I  
have one application which has not yet been fully ported, and  
unfortunately, it currently requires kdepimlibs.  Since I was trying to  
upgrade, I got rid of the KDE4 contact app, but cannot install the  
Frameworks version until I upgrade that library.  So, I've been without  
a contact manager and calendar app for too long.  That's why I'm so  
interested in trying Osmo.  Being on Gentoo, I prefer to stick with  
working ebuilds, but obviously in this case, that's just not going to  
work.  Ebuilds CAN do live pulls from svn, but it takes a bit more  
magic than I can manage right now.  So - I'll simply compile from  
source to get it working, and then go back and see if I can create a  
working ebuild.  I'll let you know how things go, but it may be a few  
days.  Real life has been very real lately....

Jack