Re: How to get beagle to work in windows

[Joshua Lock <incandescant gmail com>]

Hi Fredrik / List

On 12 Jan 2005, at 10:56, Fredrik Hedberg wrote:

> 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.

OS X!?!? Neat! Has anyone started this port yet?
I'd be very interested in having Beagle run on my iBook and even though  
I'm a fairly lame hacker I'd like to try and help in this effort.

> 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.

Eye candy is very important, thanks for the links. I think I will try  
that on my work machine, bring a bit of *nix to my abysmal job.

> 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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Joshua Lock
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