Re: [Evolution] Request advice on how to work around total failure of Evolution

[Paul Smith <paul mad-scientist net>]

On Wed, 2014-03-19 at 08:14 -0700, N B Day wrote:
> It looks like this silliness may finally be at an end.  I'm using
> pre-release Ubuntu 10.04 which ships Evolution 3.10.4. According to
> https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evolution#Get_the_Source_Code this is the
> latest released stable version (2014-02-10); appropriate for an LTS
> release.   Both work very well for me; I'm not designing bridges or
> powering life-support systems here.  

The question is what version of Gnome comes with 14.04.  Typically
Ubuntu will use the "just released" version of Gnome, which for Ubuntu
14.04 means the version of Gnome due to be released next week: Gnome
3.12.

What version of Gnome will Ubuntu 14.04 be based on?  Will they stay
with 3.10 for an LTS release, or move to Gnome 3.12?  Of course, Ubuntu
only uses the underlying Gnome infrastructure; they have their own
shell, etc. (Unity).

If Ubuntu plans to ship Gnome 3.12 infrastructure but stay with
Evolution 3.10 with 14.04 then they are continuing the silliness of
having Evolution lag behind a release, just as they have for no good
reason for 4 years now.

Hopefully for the next release, after Evo goes to a year-long release
cycle, they'll get their act together.  Otherwise they'll be using
18-month-old versions of Evo for half the year.


As far as "works well for you", that's great but every release of
Evolution has fixed important issues and provided much-needed new
features.  And, for many of us an email client is one of our most
critically important productivity tools and we'd like the latest.