Re: [Evolution] Upgrade Evolution outside of Ubuntu mechanism

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Wed, 2015-03-25 at 16:53 -0600, James Lay wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-03-25 at 15:48 -0400, Paul Smith wrote:
> > On Wed, 2015-03-25 at 18:28 +0000, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > > Finally, there are some pages out there giving you hints on how to
> > > build Evo from source.  Paul Smith has a page here
> > >
> > > http://mad-scientist.net/welcome-to-the-lab/gnome-evolution-from-source/
> > >
> > > but I think it hasn't been updated for a while, so may well be out of
> > > date.
> >
> > Really, really out of date.  I don't think I've used it since Evo 3.10
> > or something like that.
> >
> > Use at your own risk.  I think there are better build howto's out there,
> > recommending jhbuild or whatever.
> >
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> Whatever you do, I would strongly recommend you do a test run in a
> VM....a little virtualbox will save you a lot of pain and suffering
> later on.

I wonder if Docker (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docker_(software))
could be a feasible distro-independant way of running Evo. Just a
thought as I have no direct experience with Docker.

poc