On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 09:02 +0100, Lehmann, Eckhard {TR-I~Penzberg}
wrote:
Since Evo is a GNOME app, not a GTK app, you'd need, I think, all of the GNOME libs ported to MSWin.Yes. porting the GNOME libs to windows is much work and in some cases might be not easy, probably. But would it be possible to remove GNOME dependencies and substitute the components in question by things that are available on Windows, either through the Windows API or other porting projects? Or are there to many dependencies on GNOME and it would not be possible to do the evolution port without the GNOME libs port?
only if you want to make the evolution developers quit their jobs and go someplace else. maintaining a massive program such as evolution that ifdef'd which component libraries it used based on what platform it was on would be far too much effort. I would seriously quit. Novell couldn't pay me enough to maintain it. And that's assuming it got to the maintenance part... but in order to get there, there would basically have to be a complete rewrite of all of Evolution anyway, so what'd be the point? Jeff
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