Re: [Evolution] Re: [Evolution-hackers] Questions about evolutionfuture plan

[Lee Revell <rlrevell joe-job com>]

On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 11:30 +0100, Philip Van Hoof wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 13:04 +0300, regatta wrote:
>  
> > > > 2- Is there any hacked version of evolution (one that some hackers
> > > > patch it with many unreleased patches so users can test it and use it
> > > > also)
> > > 
> > > The version in the HEAD branch on cvs.gnome.org
> > > 
> > > More information:
> > > 
> > >   http://www.go-evolution.org/Compiling_Evolution_from_CVS
> 
> 
> > Will this one is not what I'm looking for, I can download the CVS
> > version but I am asking if somebody (or people) is patching the
> > evolution with some non proved patches and using them
> 
> There's no "secret" version of evolution (well, not as far as I know).
> Everything "bleeding edge" and "new" is happening in cvs HEAD. 

If you really want to live on the bleeding edge then please try some of
the patches which have been posted, but won't be merged anytime soon due
to political reasons.

For example, I posted a patch which speeds up the display of the "Unread
Mail" folder by _several orders of magnitude_, but it won't be merged
anytime soon because it disables hiding of junk messages (which IMHO was
so inefficiently implemented that it should never have been allowed in,
but now that we have the "feature" we can't just rip it out, even for a
100x speedup in displaying the message list).  See the "Performance with
Exchange 2003" thread, among others.

I get the impression that none of the Evolution developers have even
tried my patch, no one around here seems to care about performance.  If
I could get one other user to confirm the massive speedup, maybe someone
would notice.

Lee