Re: [Evolution] Installation page for the Evolution wiki

[Carl Schaefer <schaefer trilug org>]

On Tue, 2014-05-13 at 19:02 -0600, Zan Lynx wrote:
> On 05/13/2014 04:29 AM, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > Have a look on the other Gnome projects at https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps -
> > a few have build instructions, none have "install" instructions.  That's
> > because they are part of the Gnome desktop and it is expected that they
> > are installed as part of Gnome or through a distro's package manager.
>
> This is why the process is so mind bogglingly obnoxious the times in the
> past when I've had an Evolution bug.
>
> Can you build just Evolution from source on the distribution you're
> using? In the past I couldn't.

FYI, with Arch Linux building evolution from source is very easy, and
doesn't require rebuilding GNOME or any runtime gymnastics.  This was a
design goal of the package management system, but also it's helped by
Arch's rolling-release model, which means libraries are kept up-to-date.
I wouldn't want to try to build evolution 3.12 on an Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
system, or an Arch system that hadn't been updated in years either.

Carl