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

[Johnny Jacob <jjohnny novell com>]

On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 07:35 +0530, Srinivasa Ragavan wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-11-19 at 12:04 -0500, Martin Meyer wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> We don't need complete Samba4. We have a few list of libraries that we
> libmapi needs from Samba4. I don't have it handy, but we did made a
> list, during packaging for OpenSUSE, which I should be able to find out
> and share.

dcerpc
talloc
gensec
ldb
ndr
samba-hostconfig

> > 
> > I wasn't able to get trunk to compile at this time, 

http://www.go-evolution.org/MAPI_FAQ#Compiling_from_source may help.

> 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?
> 
> Its all independent. You can have both installed and you can use both
> simultaneously.
> 
> > * Is there a feature comparison matrix available so we can see exactly
> > what the new one doesn't do yet?
> Password Expiry, Send Options, Out-of-Office, some of the plugin
> features aren't implemented. We now are into core
> mail/calendar/contacts. We still would be having LDAP based GAL for some
> time and would need to re-implement GAL using libmapi/NSPI which should
> be awesome. 
> 
> > * How many and which non-gnome external libraries will a packaged
> > version depend on?
> libmapi and samba4 would be the two non-gnome external dependencies. 
> 
> > * Are you proposing for desktop or external dependency?
> Oops, sorry I wasn't explicit. I'm proposing this to be part of the
> Desktop.
> 
> > 
> > I *really* appreciate all the work that's gone into this new
> > connector. I can't wait to try it out!
> > 
> Thanks a lot :-)
> 
> -Srini
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