Re: [Evolution-hackers] Compile Evolution Mail as .so file with API for other GUI on ARM device

[Srinivasa Ragavan <sragavan gnome org>]

On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 4:11 PM, Michal G. <guziemic spam gmail com> wrote:
> Then I will use Webkit. It is available and I was doing simple browser with
> it.
> For now, I have Qt port of Webkit and Cairo graphic.
>
> Regarding size, I wonder about footprint of Evolution. I checked on my
> Ubuntu and
> it is about 12 MB. Hopefully it will required less space after removing of
> some parts.
>
> I found also some interesting post about EDS.
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/evolution-hackers/2011-June/msg00028.html
> As I understand there is some work done to make EDS more UI independent.

> Do you know if this was done, or work is in progress and in which release it
> will be?

CamelSettings is done. But Im not sure of what you mean by UI independence.

>
> And as release 3.4 is planned for March 2012. Does it means that 3.6 should
> be available after
> six months, so around September 2012. Does evolution follows GNOME schedules
> (new stable version every six months)?

Yes. Evo follows GNOME schedules.

-Srini
>
> Michal
>
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 10:21 AM, Srinivasa Ragavan <sragavan gnome org>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Michal G. <guziemic spam gmail com> wrote:
>> > Hi Srini,
>> >
>> > I will go in direction of modifying build process to be able to remove
>> > all
>> > dependencies to libraries that are not available on my SDK.
>> > I think it should be possible, but still I am not sure.
>> > My aim is to compile EDS (only mails) with Evolution (only
>> > libemail-engine +
>> > ??) and your e-mail-factory.
>> > Then I'm going to provide some GUI.
>> > Communication between those components should be done via DBUS.
>> > I am still no aware how content of mail will be visible for user. Or in
>> > other words, who will render its content.
>> >
>>
>> Evolution uses gtkhtml for rendering mails. Anjal used webkit. You can
>> also use MozEmbed.
>>
>> > In addition, I need to estimate how big package (backend) I will have
>> > after
>> > successful compilation.
>> > Could you help me in estimation?
>>
>> Big in the sense size? I have no idea tbh.
>>
>> -Srini
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