On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 23:20 +0200, Øystein Gisnås wrote: > 2007/5/31, Matthew Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 07:58 -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > > > What version to start with? I'm on Debian GNU/Linux, which currently has > > > evo > > > 2.6. I notice that's a bit dated (although I did see that a few months > > > ago > > > some of the Debian packagers were interested in making a more recent > > > version). I've been working from the Debian version. Does that version, > > > the > > > last stable release (from evo, not Debian), or svn head make the most > > > sense > > > to work from? (BTW, the one bug I fixed was one that was already fixed > > > post-2.6). > > > > FYI, Debian Unstable has Evolution 2.10. Might be easier to grab at > > least the 2.10 dependencies from there. You'll need to upgrade gtkhtml > > and likely also your GTK+ library stack to get 2.10 to build. > > In case you're on a Debian-based distribution Yes; straight Debian. > and not pulling from > svn, I would recommend using pre-built packages, or even building the > packages yourself. 2.10.2 is in the archive, and I will do 2.11.2 this > weekend. Terrific. Is unstable the place to look, or experimental, or somewhere else? > > For my own development setup I use the 2.10.x packages plus custom > build from svn for the module I'm hacking on. e-d-s for example, I > install to /opt/evolution-data-server. Then I can start development > e-d-s with 'LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/evolution-data-server/lib > /opt/evolution-data-server/libexec/evolution-data-server-1.12' and can > also start the stable e-d-s with > '/usr/lib/evolution/evolution-data-server-1.10' That's a great tip. I built evo from Debian source (with one fix) and it took 45 minutes. I clearly need a shorter route to trying out changes.
Thanks for packing evo, and for making the -dbg files available. Ross -- Ross Boylan wk: (415) 514-8146 185 Berry St #5700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept of Epidemiology and Biostatistics fax: (415) 514-8150 University of California, San Francisco San Francisco, CA 94107-1739 hm: (415) 550-1062 _______________________________________________ Evolution-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
