[Evolution-hackers] strtok camel from evolution-data-server

[Philip Van Hoof <spam pvanhoof be>]

Most Evolution people already know this. This is just the E-mail you
guys have been asking about (well, actually most of you guys asked me to
make a bug in bugzilla).


The one laptop per child project, Nokia (maemo) and maybe sooner or
later other vendors like PalmSource are getting more and more interested
in tinymail.

Situation:
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Tinymail depends on Camel. Camel gets shipped with e-d-s. Tinymail
doesn't use *any* of the other e-d-s softwares, libraries nor its data.


Observation:
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>From reading code I *know* camel doesn't have to depend on e-d-s at all.
It can very easily be cut-off from it. I could probably do this in a few
hours work.

The full e-d-s requires 23Mb disk space. Only Camel requires ~ 1MB disk
space.

Conclusion:
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So or camel is going to be split from evolution-data-server, or I will
fork camel.


Check this out:
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pvanhoof lort:/opt/camel$ ls
include  lib  libexec  share
pvanhoof lort:/opt/camel$ du -h | tail -n 1
23M     .
pvanhoof lort:/opt/camel$

THIS is ALL I need. Please DO understand this Evolution people.

pvanhoof lort:/opt/camel/lib$ ls -alh *camel*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1.7K 2006-07-06 20:26 libcamel-1.2.la
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   21 2006-07-06 20:26 libcamel-1.2.so -> libcamel-1.2.so.0.0.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   21 2006-07-06 20:26 libcamel-1.2.so.0 -> libcamel-1.2.so.0.0.0
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 915K 2006-07-06 20:26 libcamel-1.2.so.0.0.0
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1.8K 2006-07-06 20:26 libcamel-provider-1.2.la
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   30 2006-07-06 20:26 libcamel-provider-1.2.so -> libcamel-provider-1.2.so.8.0.1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   30 2006-07-06 20:26 libcamel-provider-1.2.so.8 -> libcamel-provider-1.2.so.8.0.1
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 998K 2006-07-06 20:26 libcamel-provider-1.2.so.8.0.1
pvanhoof lort:/opt/camel/lib$


Hacks like packaging tricks:
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I AM NOT going to require packaging tricks. Packaging tricks are hacks.
I don't do hacks. Hacks are ugly. Hacks are win32. I didn't come to the
opensource community to get myself stuck in hacks.

I strongly disagree with hacks. I don't support hacks. I will not use
hacks. I will fork if I'm forced to use hacks.


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