Re: [Evolution] Ximian Pilot Packages Necessary?

[Jack Coates <jack monkeynoodle org>]

On Sun, 2003-03-02 at 16:32, Andreas J Guelzow wrote:
> Jack Coates wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 2003-03-02 at 10:44, Richard S. Crawford wrote:
> >
> > > My question is, can I remove the Ximian Pilot packages to install newer
> > > versions of pilot-link and gpilotd and still have the software connect
> > > to Evolution?  Or are the Ximian-ized packages required to make the
> > > connectivity with Evolution work?
> >
> > no.
>
> Hmm, is the `no' with respect to the first part or the second part? 
> Since I am running evolution without the Ximian-ized packages for 
> gpilotd, it should be an answer to the second part, ie. the Ximianized 
> packages are not required.
>
> Andreas

right.

Realize Ximian has two functions, and while they do write some of their
own software they also just repackage other people's software.
Programming time being a relatively scarce resource, nobody except
college students rewrites programs that even partially pretend to work
unless they absolutely have to. Since gpilotd works about 25% of the
time, I highly doubt that Ximian does diddly squat to it outside of
sticking Ximian into the RPM name.

In fact... yup. The source RPM of 0.1.70-1 has two patches in it, only
one of which actually applies (the other is a leftover from 0.1.65).
Here's the content:
[jack chupacabra tmp]$ cat gnome-pilot-no-applet.patch 
diff -Nru -x '*~' -x '*.o' -x '*.orig' -x '*.rej'
gnome-pilot-0.1.70.orig/Makefile.am gnome-pilot-0.1.70/Makefile.am
--- gnome-pilot-0.1.70.orig/Makefile.am 2002-11-22 11:00:34.000000000
-0500
+++ gnome-pilot-0.1.70/Makefile.am      2002-12-09 11:20:40.000000000
-0500
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@
        macros                  \
        libgpilotdCM            \
        gpilotd                 \
-       applet                  \
        capplet                 \
        conduits                \
        utils   
@@ -19,7 +18,6 @@
 @MAINT@        cd macros && $(MAKE) macros.dep
 
 changelogs =                           \
-       applet/OChangeLog               \
        capplet/OChangeLog              \
        conduits/backup/OChangeLog      \
        conduits/OChangeLog             \

I'm no great C reader, but that's clearly removing two lines from the
0.1.70 Makefile in order to keep the applet code from compiling. Zero
functionality improvement.

-- 
Jack Coates
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