Jeff, Will there be package history files for folks upgrading from one build to another?
Otherwise, +1. John On 01/24/10 07:33 PM, Qing-Ming Jeff Cai wrote: > > Template Version: @(#)sac_nextcase 1.68 02/23/09 SMI > This information is Copyright 2010 Sun Microsystems > 1. Introduction > 1.1. Project/Component Working Name: > EOF evolution-jescs > 1.2. Name of Document Author/Supplier: > Author: Jedy Wang > 1.3 Date of This Document: > 24 January, 2010 > 4. Technical Description > 1. Introduction > 1.1. Project/Component Working Name: > EOF of evolution-jescs > 1.2. Name of Document Author/Supplier: > Author: Jedy Wang > 1.3 Date of This Document: > 15 January, 2010 > > 4. Technical Description > 1.0 Description: > > EOF of evolution-jescs > > 1.1 Project Detail > > This project proposes to remove evolution-jescs in Solaris. > > The evolution-jescs module is the Sun Calendar backend for the > Evolution mail client. It provides Evolution with the ability > to connect with the Sun Calender server. > > Since 2.29.x, the Evolution community has begun to remove the Bonobo > dependency and has changed the architecture. Since evolution-jescs has > a > strong dependency on Bonobo and the old architecture, it won't work > moving forward. For these reasons, it will be deprecated. > > The following reasons explain why the removal of evolution-jescs will > have little impact to the end-user. > > 1) The Lightning Thunderbird plugin (LSARC/2007/043) supports the Sun > Calendar server already and Thunderbird is the default mailer for > Solaris. > > 2) The new Sun Calendar server (v7) released in 2009 uses a new > protocol > called CalDAV and the support for the old protocol will be limited > to > and tailored for the Convergence client and Outlook connector > support. > > 3) Both Lightning and Evolution support CalDAV, so both of them can > support the new calendar server. > > 4) After the removal of evolution-jescs, users who want to continue to > use the old Sun Calendar Server need only to setup a new Sun > Calendar > server account in thundbird to migrate from Evolution to Thunderbird > which is fairly simple. > > 1.2 Packaging and Release Binding > > SUNWevolution-jescs will be removed in a minor release binding. > > 1.3 Documentation > > N/A > > 1.4 Dependency > > The removal of this project is dependent upon the integration > of Lightning (LSARC/2007/043) which has been already integrated into > Solaris. > > 2.0 Interface Tables > 2.1 Removed Interfaces > > Interface Stability Comments > ----------------------------- ----------- ----------------- > /usr/lib/evolution/*/evolution-jescs > Obsolete GUI > Uncommitted > /usr/lib/evolution-data-server-1.2/camel-providers/libcamelsunone.so > Obsolete Library > Project > Private > SUNWevolution-jescs Obsolete Package > Uncommitted > > > 2.2 Imported Interfaces > Interface Stability Comments > ----------------------- ------------------ ---------------- > N/A > > 3.0 References > > LSARC 2007/043 Lightning 0.3 > LSARC 2003/298 Sun Evolution > > 6. Resources and Schedule > 6.4. Steering Committee requested information > 6.4.1. Consolidation C-team Name: > Desktop > 6.5. ARC review type: FastTrack > 6.6. ARC Exposure: open > > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-arc mailing list > opensolaris-arc at opensolaris.org
