On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 13:44, Larry Ewing wrote: > On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 01:43, JP Rosevear wrote: > > On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 04:40, James Ogley wrote: > > > Many many centuries ago, there was a lot of discussion, and work towards > > > fixing bug #232 - reading TNEF attachments. The solution that was > > > arrived at was using gtnef (kudos Larry) > > > > > > However, gtnef has never been ported to GNOME2, and I discovered this > > > morning that bug #232 appears to still exist in 1.4.5. There have been > > > a couple of calls on bugzilla, attached to the bug report for the bug to > > > be reopened, but nothing's been done. > > > > > > I'll be adding the description of how I rediscovered the lost bug #232 > > > to bugzilla, but I wanted to raise it here. Are there plans to port > > > gtnef to GNOME2, and if not is there a new solution to bug #232? > > > > Larry, any thoughts on the time involved for this? > > A simple port probably wouldn't take very much time, but the problem is > the way gtnef works is far less than ideal. Because of licensing issues > (the tnef code base it was derived from is GPL'd) it cannot be linked > into the mailer so it has to be an exe component. Since it has to be a > component it has to duplicate a large amount of the mail display code to > make an interface that looks similar to the normal attachment > interface. So it is both extremely slow to activate and annoying to > maintain.
The mailer is GPL'ed though, isn't it? -JP -- JP Rosevear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ximian, Inc. _______________________________________________ evolution-hackers maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
