Hi Ian,
On Sat, 2008-07-05 at 11:29 +0100, Ian Lynch wrote:
> > > For the people wanting an eMail client with OpenOffice.org, what
> > > about bundling Evolution with the office suite?
> > > http://www.dipconsultants.com/evolution/
It is a good idea; IMHO. There are however several problems:
a) Sun has a history of not choosing evolution: initially in
~2002 (?) we saw them propose writing an entirely new Java
based PIM, [ with the magic productivity gains from Java this
would only take minutes to write & debug apparently ;-]
+ that was 'glow' and it died a slow and funny death.
+ more recently Sun is investing in Lightning /
Thunderbird - as I understand a mountain of
java-script: I imagine with the intrinsic benefits
of type-un-safety ...
b) perhaps more tellingly - Sun has vociferously rejected
bundling anything it does not own (as in copyright assigned
to it) with 'Open'Office.org; cf. the (ridiculous) external
contribution guidelines for 'unbundled' extensions at
http://external.openoffice.org/
+ so the concept of bundling evolution, or even
thunderbird (which no-one owns) is just not going
to happen.
+ or is it ? perhaps there will be some
change and -real- openness here: we can
only hope.
Having said all that; Evolution is working rather nicely on Windows
these days, and of course is great on Linux / Solaris; poke Tor if you
want to help out test some builds.
Otherwise, I think your comments are spot on.
HTH,
Michael.
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