Re: [Evolution] Compiling on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS?

[Bjørn T Johansen <btj havleik no>]

On Tue, 10 Apr 2018 18:47:13 +0100
Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve> wrote:

> On Tue, 2018-04-10 at 12:30 -0500, Paul Stejskal wrote:
> > 在 2018-04-10Tue的 18:56 +0200，Milan Crha写道：  
> > > On Tue, 2018-04-10 at 17:37 +0200, Bjørn T Johansen wrote:  
> > > > - Is this the best way or is there a better way? (I am developer
> > > > myself)
> > > > - Do I need follow some specific compiling/installation guides for
> > > > Ubuntu or can just download the source and start compiling? :)  
> > >
> > >   Hi,
> > > you might find all the answers here:
> > > https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evolution/Building
> > > and eventually here:
> > > https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evolution/Flatpak
> > > after you read the first paragraph of the former. The Flatpak version
> > > as provided in Evolution sources has also its caveats, which you should
> > > be aware of (also the first paragraph, in the second wiki page).
> > >
> > > Long story short, main issue (and the reason why LTS distros do not
> > > update evolution) is that evolution requires evolution-data-server,
> > > which is also used by other programs (and even GNOME shell), thus when
> > > you update evolution-data-server you usually need to update also all
> > > other installed applications which depend on it. The Building wiki
> > > compiles into a separate prefix, thus you can run the code "in
> > > parallel", which usually works (at least here). The Ubuntu 16.04 is
> > > really old, you'll see how well it'll work for you.
> > >   Bye,
> > >   Milan  
> >
> > 18.04 will be out in a few days. April 29th?  
>
> An alternative is to just use a distro with better support for
> Evolution (e.g. Fedora), which also meets your VMware requirement. OTOH
> Ubuntu *may* improve general Gnome support in the future now that it
> has abandoned Unity.
>
> poc

Ok, thx for the input.. Doesn't really sound too promising but I'll do some reading and see what I do...
If I install the version in Ubuntu 16, version 3.18.x, what am I missing? Will it work ok as an IMAP and 
Exchange MUA?

Fedora would have been a better option, the problem is that only the following are supported by the Horizon 
client: Ubuntu x64 12.04, 14.04, and
16.04, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.8, 6.9, 7.2, 7.3, and 7.4 and SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop (SLED) 
12 SP2. And to be able to work from remote I need a distro where this client works more or less 100%. I 
bought this laptop so I could leave my Windows PC from work at work.. :)

BTJ