Re: [Evolution] Heads Up: Merging kill-bonobo this weekend

[Robert Seward <rseward bluestone-consulting com>]

This is a silly question..

What are the advantages of removing bonobo as a dependency for
Evolution?

Thanks,
Rob


On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 16:48 -0400, Matthew Barnes wrote:
> This is a heads up that I'm going to attempt to finally merge the
> "kill-bonobo" branch this coming weekend (August 29/30).
>
> For those who haven't heard me yammering on about this for the past
> year, the "kill-bonobo" branch is a major rewrite of Evolution's core
> architecture with the primary goal of finally dropping our libbonobo and
> libbonoboui dependencies.  This, combined with Ross Burton's porting of
> Evolution-Data-Server from Bonobo to D-Bus, should completely eradicate
> Bonobo from the Evolution stack by version 2.30.
>
> Merging this branch is going to break a lot of things for the next few
> weeks.  That's why we branched early; to have some extra time to pick up
> the pieces.  The Calendar is not 100% finished, Evolution-Exchange is
> not compatible with this branch, and most third party extensions will
> require significant adaptation.
>
> The take-away here is
>
>
>         IF YOU REQUIRE WORKING BUILDS, USE THE GNOME-2-28 BRANCH.
>
>
> The sausage making is particularly messy right now, so unless you're
> involved in it I'd advise you to steer clear of the "master" branch
> until further notice.
>
> Thanks,
> Matthew Barnes
>
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