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?
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? * Is there a feature comparison matrix available so we can see exactly what the new one doesn't do yet? * How many and which non-gnome external libraries will a packaged version depend on? * Are you proposing for desktop or external dependency? I *really* appreciate all the work that's gone into this new connector. I can't wait to try it out! Martin On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 11:49 AM, Srinivasa Ragavan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi guys, > > I would like to propose, evolution-mapi a new born connector for > Evolution to connect to MS Exchange 2007. But being a connector around > the MAPI protocol, it practically can connect to any version of > Microsoft Exchange (5.5, 2000, 2003 and 2007). > > It has been under development for more than a year under a branch > EXCHANGE_MAPI_BRANCH in evolution and evolution-data-server project. > > http://svn.gnome.org/svn/evolution-data-server/branches/EXCHANGE_MAPI_BRANCH > http://svn.gnome.org/svn/evolution-/branches/EXCHANGE_MAPI_BRANCH > > Its now licensed as LGPLv2 or LGPLv3. > > We just created a new svn project for the connector and Johnny sent out > a mail on evolution-hackers and users list about the new project. It is > now hosted under GNOME Svn under as evolution-mapi. > > http://svn.gnome.org/svn/evolution-mapi > > We have requested to create a new bugzilla component for Evolution-mapi > in GNOME Bugzilla. > > We have now basic support to create account, folder, send/receive mails, > calendar/meeting and contacts. Its has bugs, and doesn't have feature > parity with the evolution-exchange (WebDAV based connector). But we > gonna spend make it the default connector in the longer term, and would > have more features than the WebDAV based connector. > > It is being developed on top of Openchange's libmapi [1], which in-turn > has a strong dependency on Samba 4. Libmapi is about to go for 0.8, > which is waiting for Samba 4 alpha6 to be released. So libmapi and > samba4 (Evolution doesn't link to samba4 directly) has to be defined as > external dependencies for GNOME. Libmapi is already built for Debian > [2], OpenSUSE, Ubuntu [3]. > > Current source of evolution mapi is targeted to build against Libmapi > rev 810 and we would be moving to depend on libmapi 0.8, once its out. > > evolution-mapi would be versioned as 0.25.x (to 0.26.0) for GNOME 2.26 > to match the minor version with rest of Evolution components and to be > in sync with GNOME versions as well. > > Feel free to ask any questions, and I should be able to answer them. > > Thanks > Srini. > > [1] - http://www.openchange.org > [2] - http://packages.qa.debian.org/o/openchange.html > [3] - http://packages.ubuntu.com/intrepid/libmapi0 > > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list > _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
