Re: [Evolution-hackers] Re: ESource, backends

2003-11-17 Thread JP Rosevear
On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 13:19, Ettore Perazzoli wrote: On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 14:54, JP Rosevear wrote: hmm, but then, what about changes in the source? How would the backend know? It doesn't know right now either. I think we can work this out along the way if necessary. I think if

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Bug #232

2003-11-17 Thread Larry Ewing
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,

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Re: ESource, backends

2003-11-17 Thread Ettore Perazzoli
On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 13:30, JP Rosevear wrote: I prefer the serialized source solution, because it is possible to open ad hoc calendars for temporary purposes. Could the gconf key just be a named property on the source? I guess it could, but then you have a consistency problem... I.e. you

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Re: ESource, backends

2003-11-17 Thread JP Rosevear
On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 13:49, Ettore Perazzoli wrote: On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 13:30, JP Rosevear wrote: I prefer the serialized source solution, because it is possible to open ad hoc calendars for temporary purposes. Could the gconf key just be a named property on the source? I guess it

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Bug #232

2003-11-17 Thread JP Rosevear
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

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Re: ESource, backends

2003-11-17 Thread Chris Toshok
On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 11:02, Ettore Perazzoli wrote: On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 14:00, JP Rosevear wrote: On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 13:49, Ettore Perazzoli wrote: On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 13:30, JP Rosevear wrote: I prefer the serialized source solution, because it is possible to open ad hoc

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Bug #232

2003-11-17 Thread JP Rosevear
On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 14:27, Larry Ewing wrote: On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 13:03, JP Rosevear wrote: 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

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Bug #232

2003-11-17 Thread JP Rosevear
On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 14:52, Dan Winship wrote: I don't think the connector links to the mailer at all, although it does link to camel. Dan? Connector is irrelevant here. We don't want non-Ximian GPL code in evolution because it keeps us from being able to do things like, oh, say, link

[Evolution-hackers] Upgrade path fix

2003-11-17 Thread Ettore Perazzoli
Hello, right now components upgrade from an existing Evolution version when they are first activated. However, that's bad since they get all activated at the same time and it's not clear to the shell when that happens (so e.g. if there are progress dialogs they'll interfere and stuff). So I

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Upgrade path fix

2003-11-17 Thread Not Zed
On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 09:02, Ettore Perazzoli wrote: Hello, right now components upgrade from an existing Evolution version when they are first activated. However, that's bad since they get all activated at the same time and it's not clear to the shell when that happens (so e.g. if there

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Upgrade path fix

2003-11-17 Thread Ettore Perazzoli
On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 20:57, Not Zed wrote: On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 09:02, Ettore Perazzoli wrote: The mechanism is similar to that of the old e-config-upgrade, i.e. it stores the version number in a GConf key and attempts an upgrade if the current version number is higher than the old one.