Re: [Evolution-hackers] Removing libical fork, moving to new upstream?

[Srinivasa Ragavan <sragavan novell com>]

On Sun, 2007-05-20 at 21:49 +0000, JP Rosevear wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-05-20 at 15:03 +0100, Ross Burton wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I discovered last week that there is an attempt to resurrect libical
> > from non-maintainership, merge all of the patches from various forks,
> > and start making sane releases again[1].  Are the evolution team as
> > whole interested in merging their changes to libical upstream and
> > depending on it to be installed when a release is made with all of the
> > relevant changes?  libical isn't exactly a small library, and statically
> > linking it is a waste of memory for everyone.
> 
> I vaguely recall the biggest diff being timezone handling.
> 
> > I'll happily start working on extracting the changes to EDS and pushing
> > them into the new libical repository, if the Evolution team as a whole
> > agrees that the fork of libical will be dropped.
> 
> I'd suggested waiting to see a pattern of stable releases before moving
> externally, but getting the patches upstream would be good.

Sounds very reasonable to me. 

-Srini.

> 
> -JP