Re: [Evolution-hackers] [Evolution] Exchange MAPI Connector

[Frederic Crozat <fcrozat mandriva com>]

Le mardi 23 octobre 2007 à 12:58 +0530, Srinivasa Ragavan a écrit :
> On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 09:16 +0200, Frederic Crozat wrote:
> > Le mardi 23 octobre 2007 à 12:07 +0530, Srinivasa Ragavan a écrit :
> > > Hello everyone,
> > > 
> > > For Evolution 2.22 we should be having MAPI based Exchange connector
> > > which developed in parallel with Openchange based libmapi. The team is
> > > currently working on that and the code is currently maintianed at GNOME
> > > SVN in EXCHANGE_MAPI_BRANCH (both for evolution and
> > > evolution-data-server)
> > > 
> > > http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/evolution/branches/EXCHANGE_MAPI_BRANCH/
> > > http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/evolution-data-server/branches/EXCHANGE_MAPI_BRANCH/
> > > 
> > > I created the branch yesterday and we committed our week long effort
> > > there. We now have a working account setup plugin, base camel/calendar
> > > code and a partially working addressbook impl. Things should get to a
> > > working shape in another week or two. I hope that soon, Johnny would be
> > > able to create a OpenSUSE Build Service repository (rpms for OpenSUSE,
> > > Fedora, Ubuntu and few more) for Evolution and its dependencies so that
> > > users can install the rpms and get a feel of it even before the
> > > release. 
> > 
> > Please, remember to notify release-team and everybody else on
> > desktop-devel about the new introduced external dependency for
> > evolution-data-server and evolution.
> > 
> Frederic, I dont think we can take it as a enforced dependency right
> away as libmapi depends on Samba4 which is just in aplha1 now. It might
> take a while before Samba4 releases and we take that and libmapi as
> external dependencies. 
> 
> Im not sure if we can make/ask those alpha versions as external
> dependencies.
> 
> Anyways thanks for the information and the trigger :)

Well, even if it is a optional external dependencies, it should be
announced, moreover because of the samba 4 implied dependency and the
GPLv3 compatibility issue it brings.

There is never too much information to announce ;)

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Frederic Crozat <fcrozat mandriva com>
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