> I'm using Chromixium; the latest version of Evolution is 10.4.x.
> Very old. No one at Debian (I guess) is keeping this updated, so
> we're stuck with older versions. And since Google deprecated their
> address book access, there's no way I can see to sync Google contacts
> with Evolution 10.4.x.
I presume you mean 3.10.4. AFAIK Gnome Online Accounts existed in Gnome
3.10 - just set up your Google account in GoA and your contacts should
appear in Evolution
>
> I've read the archives, and there's no help suggested.
I presume you mean about compiling (because there's lots of messages
about enabling Google contacts using GoA). I'm afraid there isn't much
of a magic wand to compile the most recent version of Evo on an old
system - if the README worries you then I wouldn't try.
>
>
> And is there some way to communicate with the folks who maintain the
> repositories to get them to keep up with the latest version of
> Evolution? They seem to do this with Thunderbird, with Chromium,
> etc., but not with Evolution.
Evolution is a very different thing to Thunderbird - TB is essentially
a standalone application and is not specific to any desktop; Evolution
is a Gnome application and as such needs many Gnome libraries (usually
the same version as Evo) for it to work. To see what I mean, try
running ldd on the executables - ldd tells you what libraries are
needed by the executables:
$ ldd /usr/bin/evolution | wc
141 560 7843
$ ldd /usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird | wc
8 28 347
So Thunderbird needs 8 libraries, Evolution needs 141
P.
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