Re: Evolution/MAPI

[Johnny Jacob <jjohnny novell com>]

On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 16:49 +0100, Andre Klapper wrote: 
> Am Montag, den 17.11.2008, 16:03 +0100 schrieb Vincent Untz:
> > Le lundi 17 novembre 2008, à 20:25 +0530, Srinivasa Ragavan a écrit :
> > > > We prefer tarballs and dislike depending on svn revisions.
> > > 
> > > Sure, but the last time we were based on libmapi-0.7's particular
> > > version. We surely would depend on libmapi-0.8, but some time later, as
> > > this new version brings in API changes which we aren't interested much
> > > to change atm. It changes the architecture a bit around supporting
> > > multiple Exchange connections. So I might depend on 0.8 may be some time
> > > later, but for now, I would stick to a particular version. Even libmapi
> > > for that matter depends on a particular samba4 revision than some
> > > tarball. 
> > 
> > So you want to use something which is between libmapi-0.7 and
> > libmapi-0.8? I think that's something we'd like to avoid.
> 
> I want to avoid that too. It probably makes it harder for distributions
> that might need to ship different versions of the same library if other
> software also depends on libmapi.
> How old is the current "particular version"/svn revision?

Currently, the MAPI Provider depends on openchange svn revision 710
(2008-09-02) which inturn depends on samba4 alpha5 [1].

> 
> How much work/code changes would it require to depend on 0.8?
> Is this feasible for the 2.26 API freeze at January 12th?
> 
> I'd really like to find a suitable solution for 2.26 because missing
> support for Exchange 2007 is quite a sales blocker currently.
> 
> andre

[1] http://us1.samba.org/samba/ftp/samba4/samba-4.0.0alpha5.tar.gz