On Thu, 9 May 2002, Avram Dorfman wrote:
> Has anyone talked to ximian about getting the evolution connector ported
> to OS X/fink? I know they don't open-source it, but I'm hoping they
> would like to have it ported, and would welcome the help from those of
> you that have lots of experience w/ other ports.
I sent in feedback on Ximian's site, and had a short email conversation
with one of their employees, Jocelyn Parker. I am cc'ing her on this
message so that she knows that there is still interest in seeing Ximian
Connector on OSX/Darwin.
Date: 29 Apr 2002 11:38:46 -0400
From: Jocelyn Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Ximian
We do not currently have plans to support OS X.
Now, there's a project called FINK that has been porting a lot
of UNIX and Linux software to OS X, including Evolution. You
can find them at http://fink.sourceforge.net/. However, that's
not a 'true' OS X application-- it's not taking advantage of
the Carbon or Cocoa APIs and it's not using the Aqua interface.
Some individuals have been able to compile and run Evolution
under X-for-Darwin using the GNU toolchain, but those are expert
BSD programmers who run Darwin with the X windowing system more
often than OS X proper.
Jocelyn
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Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 11:58:27 -0400 (EDT)
From: Chris Devers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Jocelyn Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ximian
On 29 Apr 2002, Jocelyn Parker wrote:
> We do not currently have plans to support OS X.
Oh well.
> Now, there's a project called FINK that has been porting a
> lot of UNIX and Linux software to OS X, including Evolution.
:)
Yes, I'm an active Fink user, including participating in the
mailing lists and helping other people in their efforts to use
Fink to install Gnome, Evolution, and everything else.
Connector isn't one of the parts that can be installed via Fink
though, and I think a lot of people would like to have access
to that, & would be willing to pay for it, even if it's X11
instead of X/Aqua.
But otherwise, yeah. I'm typing this right now in Pine running
in a Gnome Terminal running on XDarwin. It's great being able
to toggle between OSX and Gnome at will :)
--
Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Apache / mod_perl / http://homepage.mac.com/chdevers/resume/
"More war soon. You know how it is." -- mnftiu.cc
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From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon May 13 15:55:50 2002
Date: 29 Apr 2002 16:50:10 -0400
From: Jocelyn Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Chris Devers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
X-Mailer: Evolution/1.0.2
Content-Type: text/plain
Subject: Re: Ximian
Thanks for your input. I will pass this along to development.
I have attached some info on where to make recommendations for
development in the future...
Bug Reports and Development Information:
If you wish to submit a bug report or feature request for
Ximian software, please visit http://bugzilla.ximian.com.
If you would like to get source code or contribute to Ximian
software development, please visit http://developer.ximian.com.
Jocelyn
So, there you go.
If there is interest in helping to get Connector running with Evolution on
OSX/X11 (or better still, but not necessarily, OSX/Aqua), these are the
URLs you should start with. If there is enough interest, maybe Ximian will
get behind this idea...
--
Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Apache / mod_perl / http://homepage.mac.com/chdevers/resume/
"More war soon. You know how it is." -- mnftiu.cc
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