Re: [Evolution] Improvements since version 3.18



On 12 June 2017 at 12:28, Milan Crha <mcrha redhat com> wrote:

I forgot of one important change when writing the previous post,
the switch to WebKit2 (from WebKit1 usage), which is the reason why you
stopped on 3.20.x, because WebKit2 (Fedora has it packages as
webkitgtk4) is very new (the other main dependencies like glib2 and
gtk3 are not for that latest code). My fault, I'm sorry for confusion.

Good news for RHEL users:
My Oracle Linux got its upgrade to version 7.4 yesterday, the other
RHEL derivates are pretty likely geting a similar update these days.

On Oracle Linux 7.4 gtk3 is now version 3.22.10, and there's
webkitgtk4 included now. Evolution is preinstalled as 3.22.

I was able to backport Evolution 3.24 to my distro which already has
the fix for the issue with formatting quoted elements in HTML replies
[1].

Just for the records, I used the .fc26.src rpms, got some prerequisites:
- made sure I had a recent-enough cmake (I've got 3.9, but older
versions *may* work)
- upgraded python-sphinx to 1.2.3-4.fc23 (found and downloaded via
rpmsearch.net, backporting would have been tedious)
- backported and installed gnome-autoar-0.2.2 and libarchive-3.3.

In the .spec files for evolution, evolution-data-server and
evolution-ews I changed the following:
- replace %cmake by cmake and comment out all "Recommends" lines
- added the following arguments to the call of cmake:
        -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=/usr \
        -DCMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR=/usr/lib64 \
        -DCMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR_NOARCH=/usr/lib \
        -DLIB_SUFFIX=64 \

When installing I need to override dependencies because evolution 3.22
is a dependency of gnome-shell (which is not of interest for me since
I use e20), and gnome-shell is a dependency of gdm (which I do use). I
never got why dependencies are wired like this in gnome, and this is
one of the reasons why I generally don't use it - even though I still
use some programs from its ecosystem).

I'm a happy camper now. Got a fairly recent evolution version with the
(for me) important html quote fix.

Cheers,

Martin

[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=782470

-- 
Dr. Martin Dietze
1. Vorsitzender
Deutsch-Ukrainischer Kulturverein e.V.
http://www.deutsch-ukrainischer-kulturverein.de/


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