[Evolution-hackers] Getting rid of shipped libdb

2008-10-06 Thread Rob Bradford
Since we're at the start of the cycle shall we go ahead and drop the included libdb ? and thus add a formal requirement on using the system version. AFAIK all the distributors ship with using the system version... I've updated the bug #410164 with a patch that makes this change. Regards, Rob __

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Getting rid of shipped libdb

2008-10-06 Thread Srinivasa Ragavan
Rob, IIRC, I had replied to Ross on a similar query, start GNOME 2.24. Still OpenSUSE ships with in-built libdb. I'm not aware of any other distro. JPR, who use to maintain Evolution few years back, gave me the notes on why it was decided to go this way (forking libdb). So if we have answers for

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Getting rid of shipped libdb

2008-10-06 Thread Rob Bradford
On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 22:15 +0530, Srinivasa Ragavan wrote: > Rob, > > IIRC, I had replied to Ross on a similar query, start GNOME 2.24. Still > OpenSUSE ships with in-built libdb. I'm not aware of any other distro. > > JPR, who use to maintain Evolution few years back, gave me the notes on > why

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Getting rid of shipped libdb

2008-10-06 Thread Matthew Barnes
On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 22:15 +0530, Srinivasa Ragavan wrote: > IIRC, I had replied to Ross on a similar query, start GNOME 2.24. Still > OpenSUSE ships with in-built libdb. I'm not aware of any other distro. > > JPR, who use to maintain Evolution few years back, gave me the notes on > why it was de

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Getting rid of shipped libdb

2008-10-06 Thread Harry Lu
Evolution in OpenSolaris is still using the bundled BDB since Sun has a license with Oracle that we cannot ship BDB libs/headers in OpenSolaris for now. I do hope this could be changed. But for now, we'd like to still have an option to use the bundled one. Thanks, Harry On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 14:

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Removing libical fork, moving to new upstream?

2008-10-06 Thread Chenthill
I was not able to try the upstream libical yet. I am right now packed with some other work, so I will try to get this done as soon as possible. Suddenly the weekends have gone out of my hands as I have to move out of station to places that do not have internet connectivity. Either me or suman will