Thanks again for your interest. I will forward your remarks along to development to see if we can get some more information regarding the subject of OS X.
Jocelyn On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 16:05, Chris Devers wrote: > 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 > > > ++++++++++++++++++ > > > 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 > > > ++++++++++++++++++ > > > 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 > > _______________________________________________________________ Have big pipes? SourceForge.net is looking for download mirrors. We supply the hardware. You get the recognition. Email Us: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
