Re: [Evolution-hackers] Getting rid of shipped libdb

2008-10-07 Thread Michael Meeks
On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 18:35 +0100, Rob Bradford wrote: Okay. Have you got these details? It would be good to see which of those still apply, etc.. Sure - the original rational here (AFAIR) is quite simple. If you share the same .evolution across multiple machines, and the

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Getting rid of shipped libdb

2008-10-07 Thread Rob Bradford
On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 09:00 +0530, Srinivasa Ragavan wrote: Oh, My earlier mail had that as a attachment :-) Eeek. Not enough caffeine. ;-) Cheerio, Rob ___ Evolution-hackers mailing list Evolution-hackers@gnome.org

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Getting rid of shipped libdb

2008-10-07 Thread Rob Bradford
On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 22:15 +0530, Srinivasa Ragavan wrote: Rob, IIRC, I had replied to Ross on a similar query, start GNOME 2.24. Still OpenSUSE ships with in-built libdb. I'm not aware of any other distro. JPR, who use to maintain Evolution few years back, gave me the notes on why it

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Getting rid of shipped libdb

2008-10-07 Thread Matthew Barnes
On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 14:22 +0100, Michael Meeks wrote: What I'd love to see instead, is a one-shot migration to a simple plain text, authoritative file with the contacts and then (perhaps) optionally a binary cache I guess. But for the volume of data there, presumably slurping it and

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Getting rid of shipped libdb

2008-10-07 Thread Rob Bradford
On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 14:22 +0100, Michael Meeks wrote: On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 18:35 +0100, Rob Bradford wrote: Okay. Have you got these details? It would be good to see which of those still apply, etc.. Sure - the original rational here (AFAIR) is quite simple. If you share

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Getting rid of shipped libdb

2008-10-07 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Rob, On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 16:49 +0100, Rob Bradford wrote: Hhh. But. The use case you outlined directly above about where this goes wrong also applies here: Oh. You ran e-d-s on a machine with a version that migrates it to Some Other Format (tm). You then add some contacts which go into