Re: [Evolution] Evolution 3.1.x

[Andre Klapper <ak-47 gmx net>]

Hi,

On Thu, 2011-07-28 at 09:45 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> As you may remember, I've been running the Evolution mail system under
> Fedora-15/KDE for about a month now, and it has some very serious
> problems, which I can summarize as: 
>      1. It ignores font control from the KDE Settings->Applications
>         Appearance window, both KDE font control and GTK+ font
>         control, also its own internal font control window.

I can't speak for the KDE part, but for the GNOME part this should be
fixed by https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=655002 . There is no
stable release including the fix yet, though.

>      1. It has trouble sending messages to an SMTP server, sometimes
>         taking a l-o-n-g time, sometimes timing out. This can be
>         temporarily cured by restarting it 

I wonder if CAMEL_DEBUG=all could provide some debug output. See
http://projects.gnome.org/evolution/bugs.shtml

>      1. It crashes when a filter attempts to refile an outgoing
>         message. 

A crash report with a good stacktrace in bugzilla.gnome.org is welcome.
See http://live.gnome.org/GettingTraces for a how-to. The Details link
in the last sentence explains how to use gdb for this. Make sure to have
sufficient debug packages installed (but gdb will tell you about this
anyway).

> I'd like to try out evolution 3.1.x, which seems to be stuck somewhere
> in the pipeline, so I downloaded the latest evolution-3.1.4-1.fc16,
> from koji.  Unfortunately it won't run, nor will the source build, due
> to incompatibilities between the versions on koji, which are for fc16
> and my current fc15 system.

JHBuild might be an option: http://live.gnome.org/Jhbuild . Note that
https://live.gnome.org/JhbuildDependencies/Fedora is slightly outdated
and does not list Fedora 15 (yet) so you'll run into some issues when
using jhbuild that will require installing additional packages.

> Questions: 
>       * Do you expect to have an evolution-3.1.x available on updates
>         (or wherever) in the near future 

3.1.x is unstable, so I do hope that no serious distro ships it in their
updates for a stable distro.
To provide a Fedora-specific answer: Either use Fedora 16 or use
Rawhide. Both are unstable and might eat your computer.

>       * if not, is there any simple way to get the versions on koji to
>         install or build on my system?

That's really a question for a Fedora mailing list, as upstream GNOME
has nothing to do with distributions' infrastructure and packaging.

andre
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