Re: [Evolution-hackers] Testing Evolution 3.x

[Frederic Crozat <fred crozat net>]

2011/2/8 Matthew Barnes <mbarnes redhat com>:
> On Tue, 2011-02-08 at 14:23 +0100, Onyeibo Oku wrote:
>> The Help->About on my Evolution mail menu still reads 'Evolution 2.32.1'
>> but I see Development is now at 3.x.  Is there anyway I can experience
>> the future Evolution Mail Client while you guys do your thing?  Is the
>> risk of test-running still high?
>>
>> I'm presently test-running Gnome-shell (jhbuild) but I'm running Fedora
>> 14. I might be able to chip in one or two after experiencing status-quo.
>> I suspect that would be helpful.
>
> If you're already using jhbuild and it's still building 2.32 apps, make
> sure you're using the GNOME 3 module sets listed here:
>
> http://git.gnome.org/browse/jhbuild/tree/modulesets
>
> I don't use jhbuild myself or I'd tell you more about how to set that
> up, but I'm sure Google can answer that.
>
>
> Here's another, perhaps more convenient option:
>
> Fedora desktop team just conducted a GNOME 3 test day and the live image
> they produced for it includes GNOME Shell and Evolution 2.91.6:
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-02-03_GNOME3_Alpha#Live_image
>
> If you have a spare USB stick or blank DVD, make yourself a live image,
> boot it, and you can play around in GNOME 3 with no risk to your system.

Or you can also use GNOME3 live image : http://gnome3.org/tryit.html :)

-- 
Frederic Crozat