On Sat, 2017-12-23 at 21:44 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > you anyway much likely will run into dependency issues, since > Evolution doesn't provide much headroom against what dependency > versions it could be compiled.
Hi, I do not want to add more offtopic to this thread, but this one hurts. Why do you think so? The version dependencies of evolution(-data- server) are bumped only seldom, the current stable series, 3.26.x, depends on gtk 3.10 and glib 2.46, which are pretty ancient and the main dependencies. The current development version has bumped dependency on gtk+, due to Wayland differencies and new gtk+ API being required. > ... but actually the culprit for the hardest dependency issues is > the gnome-desktop dependency Well, that's an optional dependency and can be turned off in the compile time (-DENABLE_GNOME_DESKTOP=OFF). The biggest problem on the evolution is the fact that it is not a standalone application like those other named in this thread. It depends and extensively uses evolution-data-server, which would be also fine, except the evolution-data-server is used by other (core) parts of the GNOME/system and by other applications, which means dependency issues "up-side-down". More is described here, if you are interested: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evolution/Building#Evolution-Data-Server_dependency Bye, Milan P.S.: I have compiled Evolution under Windows, it's 3.18 or something around that, and it can read my IMAP messages, but since there had been some issues with glib in that time and due to the port to WebKit2, which doesn't build under Windows, all that fun is mute now. I mean with that that Evolution can (could (WebKit2)) be built out of GNOME. _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list