Re: [Evolution-hackers] Evolution-2.4 Mac Problems/ Release etc

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

Basically iirc, all of the components are setup in a pretty similar
manner.   There is a -component or -component-factory.c file which has
the bonobo module init stuff.  I think ... that just needs to be the
only file in the bonobo-server's .so file, which links to everything
which is just in a library with a different name than it is now.  So it
should actually be very little work.

Assuming it will actually work, but i guess it should.

On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 17:14 +0530, Shreyas Sriniavasan wrote:
> Hey guys,
> 
> I have been working on releasing Evolution-2.4 for Mac OS X on and off
> for some time now. 
> I have a basic setup up and working but there are a few problems with
> porting the Plugins 
> architecture to the MAC. 
> 
> Plugins in Evolution are typically Shared Libraries and some of them
> (exchange, groupwise) link to the components (libevolution-mail,
> libevolution-calnedar.so) which  are Dynamically loadable modules. On
> the MAC / BSD (?) platforms this is not portable, Dynamically loadable
> modules cannot be linked against. Hence linking of shared libraries
> against dynamically loadable modules
> would not build. This issue is not visible on Linux cos Dynamically
> loadable modules and Shared Libraries are treated as same by the linker.
> 
> Further explanations of the same can be found here
> 
> http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/porting/shared.php?phpLang=en#lib-and-mod
> 
> I have been talking to NotZed about how we could go about fixing these.
> One solution which
> both of us found acceptable was to split all the components (dynamically
> loadable modules) into 
> a dynamically loadable module and a shared library. And since whenever
> dynamically loadable modules are loaded into memory all the stuff they
> are linked against also get loaded anyway.
> 
> Please note that dynamically loadable modules can link to shared objects
> and not vice versa.
> 
> So considering that we already know what the solution is (phew) i need
> to see the time frame
> needed to fix the issue. I have been looking at the mailer code and i am
> fairly confident of 
> how to do it but ofcourse the task would be beyond just fixing the
> mailer. And as people have 
> been busy with the gnome-2.12 release this has taken bit of a back seat.
> I would love to hear from the maintainers of each of the components as
> to how the split should happen. This requires
> detailed knowledge of the code and sadly my knowledge however meagre
> would be limited to the mailer. So for a thorough fix and a closure of
> this problem i would love to hear from all the
> maintainers.
> 
> The plugins which is most hampered by these problems is Exchange and
> Groupwise. For groupwise
> only a small functionality would be missing but exchange would be
> *despairingly crippled* without the fix. So i am going to make a
> evolution-2.4 mac release in the next one week without exchange then
> make a dot release later with exchange as and when we get this fixed.
> 
> Any thoughts/ inferences and suggestions are welcome.
> 
> Regards,
> Shreyas
> 
> 
> 
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