On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 11:32 +0100, Damien Sandras wrote: > Hello to all, > > I noticed a potential problem with the new Evolution-Data-Server 1.2. > Some GnomeMeeting users do not use Evolution as mail client, but they > are still "forced" to use Evolution-Data-Server as backend in order to > store GnomeMeeting contacts in the address book.
> When upgrading to Evolution-Data-Server 1.2, things do not work anymore > until they launch the new Evolution that will do an "address book > migration". Things don't work how? The backend hasn't changed for the address book, and the gconf keys haven't changed in format or anything either. I think this is just a bug, and not necessarily a need to run migration. > That will give a problem to all users who are not using Evolution. > > One solution would be to copy the code to migrate the address book from > Evolution to GnomeMeeting, but it doesn't seem to be a good solution as > it would require to do it for all GNOME applications who are using > Evolution-Data-Server. > > Wouldn't it be possible to move that "Address Book" migration code to > Evolution-Data-Server itself? If not, what other clean solution do you > propose? We do need to move migration into e-d-s itself. Perhaps we should do that for 2.3. I don't think we have time to do it for 2.2, given that we are now string/ui/feature frozen for Gnome 2.10. -- dobey _______________________________________________ evolution-hackers maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
