Re: New module proposal for GNOME 2.26: evolution-mapi

["Martin Meyer" <elreydetodo gmail com>]

How much (if any) of Samba 4 will be needed to run this new connector?
I was just trying (unsuccessfully) to compiler trunk on my Intrepid
system and I had to install several libraries that seemed very
samba4-ish. Are any of those maybe just build dependencies and not
runtime ones?

I wasn't able to get trunk to compile at this time, but I'm excited by
the possibility of a working connector to Exchange 2007. Some
questions:

* Is it possible to have both the new libmapi-based connector and the
old evolution-exchange connector installed simultaneously? Is it easy
to figure out which one you're using, in case one or the other is
misbehaving and you want to switch?
* Is there a feature comparison matrix available so we can see exactly
what the new one doesn't do yet?
* How many and which non-gnome external libraries will a packaged
version depend on?
* Are you proposing for desktop or external dependency?

I *really* appreciate all the work that's gone into this new
connector. I can't wait to try it out!

Martin


On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 11:49 AM, Srinivasa Ragavan <sragavan novell com> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I would like to propose, evolution-mapi a new born connector for
> Evolution to connect to MS Exchange 2007. But being a connector around
> the MAPI protocol, it practically can connect to any version of
> Microsoft Exchange (5.5, 2000, 2003 and 2007).
>
> It has been under development for more than a year under a branch
> EXCHANGE_MAPI_BRANCH in evolution and evolution-data-server project.
>
> http://svn.gnome.org/svn/evolution-data-server/branches/EXCHANGE_MAPI_BRANCH
> http://svn.gnome.org/svn/evolution-/branches/EXCHANGE_MAPI_BRANCH
>
> Its now licensed as LGPLv2 or LGPLv3.
>
> We just created a new svn project for the connector and Johnny sent out
> a mail on evolution-hackers and users list about the new project. It is
> now hosted under GNOME Svn under as evolution-mapi.
>
> http://svn.gnome.org/svn/evolution-mapi
>
> We have requested to create a new bugzilla component for Evolution-mapi
> in GNOME Bugzilla.
>
> We have now basic support to create account, folder, send/receive mails,
> calendar/meeting and contacts. Its has bugs, and doesn't have feature
> parity with the evolution-exchange (WebDAV based connector). But we
> gonna spend make it the default connector in the longer term, and would
> have more features than the WebDAV based connector.
>
> It is being developed on top of Openchange's libmapi [1], which in-turn
> has a strong dependency on Samba 4. Libmapi is about to go for 0.8,
> which is waiting for Samba 4 alpha6 to be released. So libmapi and
> samba4 (Evolution doesn't link to samba4 directly) has to be defined as
> external dependencies for GNOME. Libmapi is already built for Debian
> [2], OpenSUSE, Ubuntu [3].
>
> Current source of evolution mapi is targeted to build against Libmapi
> rev 810 and we would be moving to depend on libmapi 0.8, once its out.
>
> evolution-mapi would be versioned as 0.25.x (to 0.26.0) for GNOME 2.26
> to match the minor version with rest of Evolution components and to be
> in sync with GNOME versions as well.
>
> Feel free to ask any questions, and I should be able to answer them.
>
> Thanks
> Srini.
>
> [1] - http://www.openchange.org
> [2] - http://packages.qa.debian.org/o/openchange.html
> [3] - http://packages.ubuntu.com/intrepid/libmapi0
>
>
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