Re: Deprecating libical fork

[Andre Klapper <ak-47 gmx net>]

CC'ing d-d-l as per
http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointTwentyfive/ExternalDependencies .
Please add the proposal to the wiki page.


Am Montag, den 05.01.2009, 12:02 +0530 schrieb Srinivasa Ragavan:
> Guys,
> 
> GNOME SVN has a fork of libical that Evolution/EDS has been using for
> years for many reasons, one of them being the upstream community was
> inactive. But since the last year or so, the upstream community is very
> active and we (the Evolution team) had multiple discussions on merging
> the forks and start maintaining/using the upstream version. The upstream
> community/maintainers are happy about it, and have already merged our
> changes from the fork to their latest release. This would now enable us
> to start using the upstream version.
> 
> 
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=541209 is where we have
> discussed the issues and patches towards using the upstream version.
> 
> http://downloads.sourceforge.net/freeassociation/libical-0.42.tar.gz is
> the upstream libical that we would like to depend on for EDS. We would
> like to have a external dependency on this and drop the fork that we
> have been carrying around.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> -Srini.
> 
> 
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