Re: [Evolution] compile my own --- in addition to: Authentication Issues with Exchange Web Services

[Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk>]

> > Note that Xubuntu 14.04 Evolution packages are pretty old, even
> > ancient (3.10 if I understand right). Even Vivid 15.04 has very old
> > packages. So I compile my own from time to time. Alternatively, if you
> > upgrade to Vivid 15.04, you can use Fabien Tassin PPA here:
> > https://launchpad.net/~fta/+archive/ubuntu/gnome3  and use 3.16.x
> > which is relatively recent. 

> I'm often noticed - particularly on this list, that my Evolution
> packages are pretty old, even ancient (and here it's 3.2.3 as it came
> with Precise and it will doggonit stay as long as Precise stays or I'll
> find a safe way to do, what Emre Erenoglu does). But what is the
> (Ubuntu) procedure for that ?

I don't use Ubuntu, but you appear to have replied to a message
containing a link to a PPA that contains the information on how to add
it to your system.

> I'd love to compile my own Evolution from time to time - as practically
> everyone here on the list seems to do from the sound of it ?!!

No, not at all.  I don't think I've ever compiled Evo - well I might
have done in the Ximian days before Evo ever reached version 1.

> But there seems to be not even one simple "cookbook" to do it, but lots
> of comments, that those distros that don't keep Evolution up to a recent
> version are dirt cheap.

You have a free choice over which distro you use - your choice may be
determined by factors other than the version of the software it
contains, but it is, nevertheless, a free choice.  There are distros
that keep Evolution reasonably up to date (such as Fedora); there are
distros that provide the environment and tools to compile anything and
everything; there are distros that have third parties who provide non
-official packages for recent versions of software (such as Ubuntu).


> I don't see the fun of it. Finally, I'd like to get to know an Ubuntu
> user who knows how - and who passes this straightaway to this list or to
> a web site.
If your choice is to use a very old distro, then that comes with
consequences.  If you are inexperienced at building software packages,
then I suspect you are going to have a very hard time, even with a lot
of hand-holding, building a recent version of Evolution, and all its
dependencies.

If you really want to stick with your current distro AND you want to
use a recent version of Evo, then I suspect your best bet might be to
install a recent distro in a virtual machine - but that seems a bit
overkill just to use Evolution.

P.