Re: Tinymail patches

[Philip Van Hoof <spam pvanhoof be>]

On Fri, 2007-11-23 at 11:57 +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
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> 
> (no need to Cc me, I'm subscribed.)
> 
> | > We are using NM, yes.  I must confess to not really 
> | > understanding what libconic is and does, except it seems to 
> | > have a certain overlap with what NM.
> | > 
> | > I don't really want us to have to maintain a separate tree 
> | > along the lines of -olpc or -gpe, but if that's what it 
> | > takes, I guess we'll have to bite that bullet.
> | 
> | As I said, apart from the TnyDevice implementation (which
> | uses libconic), there is very little interesting or maemo
> | specific in libtinymail-maemo.
> 
> Ok.  Has anybody started on a TnyDevice implementation for NM?  I
> presume that's needed for full GNOME desktop integration.

There's one available in libtinymail-gnome-desktop

> | The only reason to use TnyMaemoConicDevice is for compiling
> | the Modest email program. It would require some work there
> | to work on top of a TnyDevice which uses NM instead.
> 
> Yes, modest is what we are really interested in here.  I suspect that
> also needs some hacking to work correctly with a
> TnyNetworkManagerDevice?

That might be a better name in a libtinymail-nm, but right now its name
is TnyGnomeDevice in libtinymail-gnome-desktop. If somebody wants to
refactor the type's name into a libtinymail-nm, I'll be okay with that.

I suggest a static library rather than a .so , though. And let
libtinymail-gnome-desktop statically link with the .a (idem for the
libtinymail-maemo that will be used by Ubuntu Mobile).


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