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

[Srinivasa Ragavan <sragavan novell com>]

On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 16:21 +0000, Ghee Teo wrote:
> Srinivasa Ragavan wrote:
> > 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.
> What happen to those distro that doesn't deliver Samba 4. Will evolution 
> fail:
> - to compile?
> - to run?
> or is this configurable by options at compile time? at run time?
> 
This is made as a separate plugin. This new module evolution-mapi has
all those plugins. If you don't have Samba4, you can't use the mapi
connector. But Evolution would continue to work as it used to be.

-Srini