Re: [Evolution] Few questions about evolution

[Matthew Barnes <mbarnes redhat com>]

On Mon, 2008-06-23 at 13:50 -0700, Scoped Ptr wrote:
> 1. Since Evolution uses Mozilla NSS for secure connections, how does
> it cope on the linux distributions which do not 
> have Mozilla or NSS and NSPR installed ?

What distribution doesn't ship Firefox, or some rebranded variant
thereof?  In any case, if NSS is not detected at compile time you get a
less capable Evolution.  But it copes just fine.  (I think it may even
be able to utilize OpenSSL to some extent, if available.  Not sure.)

> 2. Does Evolution dynamically link to the libnss or it links
> statically ?

Dynamically.

> 3. Does NSS provides a stable set of APIs ?

Yes.  http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/NSS_functions

Matthew Barnes