Re: [Evolution-hackers] Introduction and Questions

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj novell com>]

On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 13:38 -0700, Ross Boylan wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 16:10 -0400, Matthew Barnes wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 07:58 -0700, Ross Boylan wrote:
> > > What version to start with?  I'm on Debian GNU/Linux, which currently has evo 
> > > 2.6.  I notice that's a bit dated (although I did see that a few months ago 
> > > some of the Debian packagers were interested in making a more recent 
> > > version).  I've been working from the Debian version.  Does that version, the 
> > > last stable release (from evo, not Debian), or svn head make the most sense 
> > > to work from?  (BTW, the one bug I fixed was one that was already fixed 
> > > post-2.6).
> > 
> > FYI, Debian Unstable has Evolution 2.10.  Might be easier to grab at
> > least the 2.10 dependencies from there.  You'll need to upgrade gtkhtml
> > and likely also your GTK+ library stack to get 2.10 to build.
> > 
> > Matthew Barnes
> If I update GTK+ is that going to break other apps that use that
> library?

no, gtk maintains binary compat with older versions of the same major
revision (2.x in this case)

Jeff