Re: New module proposal for GNOME 2.26: evolution-mapi

[Srinivasa Ragavan <sragavan novell com>]

On Wed, 2008-11-19 at 12:04 -0500, Martin Meyer wrote:
> How much (if any) of Samba 4 will be needed to run this new connector?
> I was just trying (unsuccessfully) to compiler trunk on my Intrepid
> system and I had to install several libraries that seemed very
> samba4-ish. Are any of those maybe just build dependencies and not
> runtime ones?

We don't need complete Samba4. We have a few list of libraries that we
libmapi needs from Samba4. I don't have it handy, but we did made a
list, during packaging for OpenSUSE, which I should be able to find out
and share.
> 
> I wasn't able to get trunk to compile at this time, but I'm excited by
> the possibility of a working connector to Exchange 2007. Some
> questions:
> 
> * Is it possible to have both the new libmapi-based connector and the
> old evolution-exchange connector installed simultaneously? Is it easy
> to figure out which one you're using, in case one or the other is
> misbehaving and you want to switch?

Its all independent. You can have both installed and you can use both
simultaneously.

> * Is there a feature comparison matrix available so we can see exactly
> what the new one doesn't do yet?
Password Expiry, Send Options, Out-of-Office, some of the plugin
features aren't implemented. We now are into core
mail/calendar/contacts. We still would be having LDAP based GAL for some
time and would need to re-implement GAL using libmapi/NSPI which should
be awesome. 

> * How many and which non-gnome external libraries will a packaged
> version depend on?
libmapi and samba4 would be the two non-gnome external dependencies. 

> * Are you proposing for desktop or external dependency?
Oops, sorry I wasn't explicit. I'm proposing this to be part of the
Desktop.

> 
> I *really* appreciate all the work that's gone into this new
> connector. I can't wait to try it out!
> 
Thanks a lot :-)

-Srini