Re: [Evolution] Is there a news reader planned?

[Chris Toshok <toshok hungry com>]

Dan Winship wrote:

> > But I thought that was the point of using components.  Evolution does a good
> > job of using the gnome-pim for it's calendar portion...I don't see why it
> > couldn't do as good a job with pan.  Am I missing something?
>
> The point of components is that people can write more components, not
> that you can embed completely arbitrary things.
>
> Evolution doesn't use gnomecal for its calendar, it uses
> evolution-calendar, which was based on gnomecal, but has diverged
> since then.
>
> If the Pan authors wanted to add support for the Evolution Shell IDL
> stuff to Pan, then you would be able to run Pan inside Evolution. But
> you can't just run arbitrary apps inside Evolution, because they won't
> know how to interact with the other apps.
>
> Anyway, getting back to the original question: there's part of an NNTP
> provider in the tree, and it will be finished some day, but I don't
> think Helix Code is planning to finish it before the 1.0 release. Of
> course, someone else could finish it instead. A good place to start
> would be seeing if the current NNTP code still compiles against the
> current Camel code, and updating it if it doesn't.

i got it compiling against the camel of about a week ago.  didn't test it out,
just wanted to get it building again with notzed's new summary stuff.  reading
messages was possible a while (a month?) ago, and should require minimal work to
get things working again (if it doesn't already work :)

posting is a different matter, since it's another transport in camel's eyes, and
i never got around to figuring out what changes needed to happen where.

by all means, if someone wants to step up and claim the nntp code, go for it --
i'll even help out.  otherwise i'll work on it in my spare time.  who knows,
maybe it'll even work by the 1.0 release.

Chris