OK, I gotta ask :) Are there going to be preview releases for other distributions? If so, what dists are planned? And last but not least, when might we expect them? Patiently (well sorta) waiting for previews on some other dists, Skadz On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 14:41, Ettore Perazzoli wrote:
Hello, it is our greatest pleasure to announce that daily snapshots from CVS of the GNOME 2.0 port of Ximian Evolution (aka Evolution 1.3) are now available for Red Hat 8.0. (For those who don't know, Evolution is a GNOME based groupware application, based so far on GNOME 1.4 but currently being ported to GNOME 2. Further information is available at http://ximian.com/products/evolution/ .) * WARNING * These snapshots of Evolution are UNSTABLE and completely untested. This means that they will probably crash very often, and possibly eat your mail, calendar, appointments, anything. The purpose of this release is to help users to test the new code; use at your own risk, but please do report the bugs. :-) AVAILABILITY In order to install the snapshots, you have to either use Red Carpet (Ximian's package managing application) or download the RPM packages from our FTP site. Please note that the packages are made to work with your existing GNOME 2 packages as provided by Red Hat; installing this snapshot will not change your existing setup nor replace any of the base packages in your distribution. Also, the packages are made to be parallel-installable with Evolution 1.2 so you can test Evolution 1.3 but still have the old, stable version as a backup. 1. Installing through Ximian Red Carpet The snapshots can be simply installed from the "Evolution Development Snapshot" channel from Red Carpet. If you don't have Red Carpet installed, follow the directions at the following location: http://ximian.com/products/redcarpet/download.html After installing Red Carpet, subscribe to the Evolution Development Snapshot Channel. If you are new to installing Evolution with Red Carpet, see here: http://www.ximian.com/products/evolution/download.html for more detailed installation instructions. 2. Installing from FTP All the necessary RPMs can be found at the following location: ftp://ftp.ximian.com/pub/evolution-devel-snapshot/redhat-80-i386 To install or upgrade, download them to your computer, and then simply use the standard RPM incantation as root: rpm -Uvh *.rpm (The -devel packages are optional.) Evolution can then be launched by typing "evolution-1.3" on the command-line. The corresponding source RPMs can be downloaded from here: ftp://ftp.ximian.com/pub/evolution-devel-snapshot/redhat-80-i386 UPGRADE NOTES Evolution 1.3 can be installed at the same time as Evolution 1.2. However, these two versions should never be run at the same time. If you want to switch from using Evolution 1.2 to using Evolution 1.3, quit Evolution 1.2, run "killev", then run "evolution-1.3". If you want to switch from using Evolution 1.3 to using Evolution 1.2, quit Evolution 1.3, run "killall evolution-wombat", then run "evolution". All the data (mail, calendars, contacts) should be visible without any problems from both Evolution 1.2 and Evolution 1.3; if you experience any data interoperability problems between the two versions, please report them as bug. LDAP configurations and filter/vfolder settings should also work between Evolution 1.2 and Evolution 1.3 without any problems. On the other hand, Evolution 1.2 and Evolution 1.3 will not share user preferences or mail account/password information. A better upgrade procedure preserving the user's settings is planned for the final release, but for now these need to be manually set up again by the user. It is also highly recommended that you make a backup of your 1.2 ~/evolution directory before switching to Evolution 1.3 to prevent data loss. If you are using POP mail, please consider using the "Leave messages on server" option to prevent your mail from being erased on the server after download. (The option can be changed from the "Receiving Options" tab of the account editor.) That being said, the backend code has changed very little in the migration from GNOME 1.4 to GNOME 2.0, so you should not be risking very much. :-) Please note that Ximian Connector 1.2 will NOT work with Evolution 1.3, and that there are not going to be any public snapshots of Ximian Connector. WHAT HAS CHANGED The plan for Evolution 1.3 is to not add any new major features compared to Evolution 1.2. The aim of the upcoming stable release is to just provide the same functionality as Evolution 1.2, but with better integration with the GNOME 2 desktop, as well as to take advantage of the features of the new platform, such as better font support. Of course, a bunch of 1.2 bugs have also been fixed during the process of porting Evolution to GNOME 2. A major change since version 1.2 is that Evolution 1.3 consists of only two processes: the front-end ("evolution-1.3") and the calendar/addressbook data backend ("evolution-wombat"). For this reason, the old "killev" script is no longer necessary for debugging purposes. If things get stuck, just kill these two processes. REPORTING BUGS The main purpose of these snapshot is, of course, to gather as much testing as possible from users. Your help in testing and submitting bugs as you find them is highly appreciated. If Evolution 1.3 crashes, please take the time to submit the bug using Bug Buddy, trying to fill in as much detail as you can regarding the circumstances that lead to the crash. If, on the other hand, you find a problem in the behavior or the appearance of the application, please use our Bugzilla interface at: http://bugzilla.ximian.com/ You can also check if your bug has been reported before by using the search functionality of Bugzilla: http://bugzilla.ximian.com/query.cgi KNOWN ISSUES The following problems are already well-known to the team, so please avoid reporting them into Bugzilla: - Drag and Drop on the folder list doesn't work. - The performance of the mail component is slower than in Evolution 1.2; in particular, text rendering and editing are considerably slower. This issue is related to the migration to Pango, and will be addressed before the final release. CONTRIBUTING As with all open source projects, we would love to get your patches! Information for how to have your patches submitted and accepted is available at the following page: http://developer.ximian.com/projects/evolution/contributing.html You'll probably want to join the following mailing lists: * For development discussions, evolution-hackers ximian com To subscribe, send mail to evolution-hackers-request lists ximian com with subject "subscribe". * For submitting patches, evolution-patches ximian com To subscribe, send mail to subscribe-evolution-patches newlists ximian com . Enjoy! -- The Evolution Team _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - evolution lists ximian com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
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