Re: [Evolution-hackers] evolution-data-server from Desktop to Platform?

[JP Rosevear <jpr novell com>]

On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 11:10 -0400, David Malcolm wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 15:09 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
> > On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 07:34 -0400, JP Rosevear wrote:
> > > > Why this desire to preserve bin compatability, it doesn't seem
> > > > worthwhile at this point ...
> > 
> > gstreamer (also in the Desktop, on the way to the Platform) has dealt
> > with this by parallel-installing their 0.6, 0.7, 0.8, and 0.9 versions.
> > It just shifts the pain onto them, and the distros, instead of the
> > application authors, but it's maybe worth considering.
> > 
> 
> AFAIK GStreamer doesn't have a lot of user-data/configuration, whereas
> e-d-s has multiple sources of data, configured in GConf and cached or
> stored under ~/.evolution

Not to mention we'd like to change this so backends can dynamically
update the sources.

-JP
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JP Rosevear <jpr novell com>
Novell, Inc.