Re: [Evolution] Ximian Pilot Packages Necessary?



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
Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture...




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