Re: [Evolution] evolution fails to start

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam opengroupware us>]

On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 13:55 +0300, Tor Lillqvist wrote:
> > I haven't had much luck with the Evos-for-Windows - I hope the upcoming
> > Bonobo, etc... free builds may be more portable.
> Maybe, maybe not. Firstly, there needs to be a stable dbus port to
> Windows. Currently the dbus situation on Windows is a bit unclear.
> There are several competing ports, with unclear and perhaps
> conflicting goals and policies regarding upstreaming etc. (Hopefully I
> am just pessimistic here, so sorry if you think this sounds like FUD.)

I don't think it is FUD. :)  I've been a UNIX admin for almost two
decades - pessimism is my middle name.  I'm aware of the D-Bus issue as
I develop .NET (Mono) apps... and there is no D-Bus on Win32. :(

Porting non-trivial apps across platforms is ... non-trivial!

> Secondly somebody needs to keep the Evolution et al code buildable and
> working on Windows, and somebody (else?) needs to create installers
> etc. (Well, me and Fridrich probably will keep trying, in our copious
> spare time... Sadly I must admit I haven't for instance built
> Evolution myself in half a year at least.)

Understood.  

> > It really might be more useful for you to contact the people
> > who did the port
> We are listening;)