Re: [Evolution] evolution 3.10 not sending messages from one of my mail acounts

[Milan Crha <mcrha redhat com>]

On Fri, 2015-09-25 at 11:11 -0400, Paul Smith wrote:
> Evolution is a Gnome application, and relies
> extensively on the Gnome infrastructure.  It's not like Thunderbird or
> Firefox, for example, or even the kernel, which are essentially
> stand-alone.  Upgrading Evolution would mean you'd have to upgrade all
> of Gnome in the LTS, which is a complete non-starter (Evo does support
> one major version of Gnome back, but 14.04 uses Gnome 3.10).

        Hi,
this used to be true when some major changes had been done, like the
move to gtk3, but the versions are not bumped that often these days,
only sometimes the versions for dependencies are bumped when a new
functionality is being done which requires more recent
libraries/symbols. For example, evolution/eds 3.18 requires glib 2.40,
gdk/gtk 3.10, libsoup 2.42, according to configure.ac, thus it can be
built against not-so-latest libraries too.
        Bye,
        Milan