Re: [Evolution-hackers] What happened to email-factory?

[Srinivasa Ragavan <sragavan gnome org>]

[Sorry, I was away on a family emergengy and just back to work]

On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 6:28 PM, Matthew Barnes <mbarnes redhat com> wrote:

On Fri, 2013-01-04 at 20:58 +0200, Mehmet Giritli wrote:
> I was looking forward to have the email backend moved into EDS so that I
> can write a proper mail notification UI for gnome. But I noticed that
> the branch here https://github.com/sragavan/e-mail-factory was never
> merged and I can no longer see it among the future plans. So I am a
> little curious what happened to this project? Has it been dropped
> entirely?

Good question.  I'd still like to see it happen, but I haven't heard
from Srini in several months and our architecture has changed greatly
since the last commit on that repo.  If I end up having to carry it the
rest of the way then it then it's at least a year out yet since I have
other priorities.  This is a nice-to-have, not a must-have feature.

I haven't ported it beyond 3.4. But I always see a week or two effort to update to the latest branch. Evolution project exports the libemail-engine and libemail-utils (which is gone now) to e-mail-factory daemon[1]. I just keeping porting it when I get sometime. Its definitely not dead and I wouldn't leave it atleast.

The daemon code[1]  is maintained here for the time being once we do all great, this & the library should be in EDS.  It has a complete dbus api but the ideal design would be to get a eclient based one. It needs about 4-6man months to complete this and let evolution use this. 

-Srini

[1] - https://github.com/sragavan/e-mail-factory