Re: Proposed: evolution

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 11:21 +0200, D.M.D. Ljungmark ( Spider ) wrote:
> Jeff Waugh wrote / skrev:
> > Description:
> > 
> >   Evolution is an integrated mail, addressbook and calendaring application
> >   for GNOME. It brings in a number of dependencies: evolution-data-server,
> >   gal, gtkhtml and libsoup.
> > 
> 
> 
> +1
> For some time we have shipped a WebBrowser, and an email application is 
> a good step towards a modern desktops feature completion.
> 
> 
>  From a packaging standpoint though, I haven't looked at evolution 
> 1.5.x, however the previous cycles have been one of the most hellish 
> applications ever to package, with more prone breakage due to the sheer 
> complexity and measure of it.  How well has it evolved here? Will we 
> still expect strange issues and internal forks of the db suite?
> 
the worst dependency, which was the 3.1.17 version of berkeley db is
gone, so it should be much easier to package now.

cheers