Re: [Evolution] New Evolution installation -- three short questions

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Sun, 2008-01-13 at 10:52 +0200, Stan Goodman wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 20:14 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Sun, 2008-01-13 at 01:17 +0200, Stan Goodman wrote:
> > > 1) I've scanned the User's Guide and read parts that I needed at the
> > > moment.  I'm now in the process of building a system of filters; for my
> > > purposes, apparently will need to use the "Scheme Language" mentioned
> > > exactly twice in the Guide, with no indication of where to find
> > > documentation on the Language. Nor have I been able to locate anything
> > > through Google. Where can I learn something about it?
> >
> > Scheme is a descendant (or variant) of Lisp. Google's very first hit for
> > "scheme" is http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/projects/scheme/
>
> I had no idea that Scheme was not a scripting language specific to
> Evolution (the User's Guide gives no hint one way or the other). Had I
> seen this hit, I would probably have ignored it. "Scheme" means so many
> things.

AFAIK Scheme is actually the scripting language for GNU. I seem to
remember an announcement about it quite a few years ago, followed by a
deafening silence. Maybe the GNU lists would have more info.

poc