Re: How to get beagle to work in windows

[Fredrik Hedberg <fredrik hedberg avafan com>]

Hey

I have Beagle running on WinXP with standard MS.NET runtime without 
Cygwin or to much other strange stuff. Screenshot is
available at http://users.avafan.com/~fredrik/best-win32.jpg. Goal is to 
produce something as native as possible for both Win32 and OSX á la iFolder.

If you dare, you can try the latest installer from 
http://users.avafan.com/~fredrik/beagle/win32/beagle-win32-20050111.exe
You'll need to install GTK# for the MS.NET runtime (available from 
http://forge.novell.com/) and Gecko# (from instructions
available at http://www.zacbowling.com/monodevelop/gtkembedmoz-sharp/). 
A word of warning, this is definently nothing ready
for day to day use as it's mostly a test of the new installer, POF and 
of course, eyecandy.

A little a bit about development while on the subject:

I'm gonna take some time to check in the changes for a more platform 
independent Beagle into CVS when I'm done with my exams in about two weeks.
Hopefully we'll soon have DBus on Windows as well (current Win32 port 
uses the Beagle network interface as a hack). When the code is in CVS I 
presume
that more people are interested in hacking on Win32 features, here's a 
small todo.

Big things

* MS Outlook Backend - 50% Needs work on supporting IMAP emails and 
attachment indexing
* Mozilla/Thunderbird Backend - 25% Need a nice lib like gmime available 
on Win32, Linux and OSX, attachment indexing
* SharpReader Backend - 75 % Plain works, prolly bugs though
* AIM/ICQ IM Backend - 0% (Gaim backend works btw)
* Backends for your favourite applications - 0 % What applications do 
you wish to see supported on Win32?
* Get an inofity FSW into Mono on Linux for same-source 
FileSystemQueryable - 50 % See
http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2004-December/009580.html 
for a quick hack.

Small things

* Support thumbnailing of stuff through Thumbs.db
* Enhance the scheduler's cpu monitoring
* Use iFilter to filter stuff like PDF, DOC, XLS etc
* Lots of other stuff

Feedback very welcome.

/Fredrik

John BouAntoun wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> I just spoke to Nat at #mono and he says that it is possible to get 
> beagle to work on windows with a patch for gecko-sharp that will 
> enable it to run on windows. Nat suggested that Fredrik provided the 
> patch originally.
>
> Anyhow, I’d love to have beagle running on my office desktop (WinXP) 
> but am not allowed to have cygwin running on it. Hopefully I will 
> still be able to get this set up to work (using either 
> gtk-sharp/ms.net or gtk-sharp/mono).
>
> Regards,
>
> JBA
>
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