Re: [Evolution] Just downgraded from Evo 1.2.1 to 1.2.3

[JP Rosevear <jpr ximian com>]

On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 12:05, Ronald Kuetemeier wrote:
> snip ..
>
> > > You got to talk to QA how they test :-).
> > > Attached patch fixes the problem. BTW, I realized my wombat was crashing
> > > also locally. Must not have used calendar before locally, oh well ...
> > > Anyhow while I was on it, I have reversed patched the multi spell back
> > > into 1.2.3 gtkhtml, now I'm happy.
> > > Ronald
> >
> > Something doesn't seem quite right here - the organizer member employees
> > the same technique of naming.  What platform is this on?
> I had hoped you wouldn't say that.  I woke up this morning and thought
> this can't be right ...
> I worked on wombat while really doing something else, anyhow tried to
> reproduce my environment and the compile errors, it wouldn't even
> compile cal-component without the change. 
> Can't reproduce it.
> gcc 2.96 Redhat 7.3 with kernel 2.4.20 SMP 2xPIII
> AAAAgh, I hate when this happens
> I must have had something in my environment since I was actually working
> on something else and worked on evolution on the side.
> The thing which struck me as odd was that I had to use my compiled
> wombat even without debugging symbols. But I didn't make any changes.
> Also this morning reply didn't bring up the editor, but new and then
> reply worked.
> In other words there is something funny with 1.2.3 on SMP machines going
> on.

Is it possible that another processor was running an old wombat (i'm not
really familiar with smp linux workings)?  

> Wombat hasn't crashed ever since, go figure. But I found that I can't
> use my patch to send reminders as email since somebody else is working
> on it, so I have to decide if I want to go back to 1.2.1 again. Since I
> need that functionality.

Yes, that was me.  Basically I implemented it but only committed the gui
portion because of the problems when evolution is not running.  I might
still have the part that does the emailing if you are interested in it.

-JP
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JP Rosevear <jpr ximian com>
Ximian, Inc.