[Evolution-hackers] Status of GNOME_Evolution_Shell_findComponent

[Matthew Barnes <mbarnes redhat com>]

What is the status of GNOME_Evolution_Shell_findComponent?

It looks to me like Evolution has had this function disabled since
before version 2.6, yet still appears to use it in the "mail-remote"
plug-in.

More importantly, Evolution-Sharp still carries a dependency on
Evolution because of this one function.  This is bad because Evolution
pulls in a lot of desktop-related stuff that someone using
Evolution-Sharp may not necessarily need or want.  It would be great to
see Evolution-Sharp drop this dependency, especially if
GNOME_Evolution_Shell_findComponent() is indeed disabled.

Is there a workaround for the functionality that
GNOME_Evolution_Shell_findComponent() provided?

Thanks,
Matthew Barnes