Re: [Evolution-hackers] Retiring evolution-exchange

2012-06-01 Thread Michael Meeks
On Thu, 2012-05-31 at 23:19 -0600, Akhil Laddha wrote: > > I'm adding Evolution-GroupWise to the retiree list, since it no longer > > has any active maintainers. Urk; I'm an active user too ... > There were some good amount of changes in groupwise source code post > 3.5.1 release. These

[Evolution-hackers] symbol ugliness ...

2006-01-09 Thread michael meeks
Hi guys, Just running my interposing detection tool: http://go-oo.org/ooo-build/bin/finterpose $ find /opt/gnome/lib -name '*.so' | finterpose gnome-exclusions over all of Gnome's libraries - and there is an unexpected amount of cruft from the evolution piece. So

Re: [Evolution-hackers] symbol ugliness ...

2006-01-10 Thread michael meeks
On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 12:39 +0200, Tor Lillqvist wrote: > Hmm, either you have a time machine Michael, or there has been some > slight delay in the mailing list ;-) ;-) > Odd that your script didn't notice some duplicated functions from code > generated the ORBit2 IDL compiler. There sho

[Evolution-hackers] e-d-s pokeage ...

2006-02-14 Thread michael meeks
Hi there, So - I was pleased to see that the libebook .so remains unchanged from evo 2.4 to 2.6 - and I just did a little review to try to ensure that this indeed reflects an unchanged ABI ;-) It seems that is the case - which is great thanks - I need only to update a comment in O

[Evolution-hackers] Gender ...

2006-02-15 Thread michael meeks
So, At the risk of offending the gender-confused; it would be -extremely- useful to have a Gender boolean in the evolution addresbook [ of course, perhaps there is & I'm just missing it but I dug into the code ]. The reason is OO.o will vary it's salutation on gender; ie.

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Something screwy when Evolution Shell invokes bonobo_activation_active_server_unregister()

2006-06-19 Thread Michael Meeks
On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 00:18 +0300, Tor Lillqvist wrote: > I think I have a good guess now: The problem is that all sockets by > default are inherited by child processes in Windows. (Like file > descriptors in Unix.) Ah - we had some wonderful b-a-s bugs for the few sockets we didn't CLOEX

Re: [Evolution-hackers] My ORBit2 Win32 problem today

2006-06-21 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Tor, On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 02:35 +0300, Tor Lillqvist wrote: > I spent much time today debugging a problem related to > evolution-exchange. When quitting Evolution, and then after a while > starting it again, it hang. bonobo-activation-server was waiting for a > reply from evolution-exchange-st

[Evolution-hackers] More e-d-s ABI breakage ?

2006-08-11 Thread Michael Meeks
So, After all the acute pain we suffered in the past with e-d-s breakage, and the monstrous lack of testing this caused by ensuring it was not possible to run newer versions on older systems; which [ combined with the lack of snapshots IMHO ] in turn caused large numbers of undiscovered re

Re: [Evolution-hackers] More e-d-s ABI breakage ?

2006-08-11 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Harish, First - thanks for digging these changes out for me. But - no, I'm not just interested in ebook (though for OO.o that is all), but I'm -primarily- interested Evo. itself, in being able to use and test the most recent version to help avoid regressions, and indeed ship it for olde

Re: [Evolution-hackers] More e-d-s ABI breakage ?

2006-08-11 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi dudie, On Fri, 2006-08-11 at 21:47 +0530, Harish Krishnaswamy wrote: > I had not reviewed the patch or explored the alternatives to avoid > breakage. I would let the addressbook hackers to comment on that. > I do think you have a point above, though. Good 'oh :-) should be easy to fix

Re: [Evolution-hackers] More e-d-s ABI breakage ?

2006-08-11 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Ross, On Fri, 2006-08-11 at 17:32 +0100, Ross Burton wrote: > The change was required for the 770 as ferrying the photos over the bus Sure - I like the core change, but not the API/ABI detail :-) > If it's required it might be possible to revert that change and > introduce an alternat

[Evolution-hackers] e-d-s ABI breakage [ .so bump ] ...

2006-08-14 Thread Michael Meeks
So, I spent a while digging into this and trying to patch it to remove the changes and create something that could be back-compat, so we could downgrade the .so version again. Then - I noticed that (apparently) SL 10.1 and SLED10 shipped with the new ABI anyway; but (presuambly) w

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Synching Evolution/GNOME version

2007-10-04 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Matthew, On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 10:00 +0530, Srinivasa Ragavan wrote: > > And while we're at it, can we please drop the meaningless -1.2 suffix > > from the library names (e.g. libedataserver-1.2.so)? As far as I can > > tell this is just an artifact from an age before the EDS sonames were > >

[Evolution-hackers] massive e-d-s memory leak persuit ...

2008-01-24 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi dudie, So - I started to look at the e-d-s memory explosion situation quickly, took a nice dump from gdb, ran strings on it and the heap has a ton of strings around the place (as you would expect) - [ currently running at only ~60Mb strings /tmp/eds-heap | sort | uniq -c | sort -n gi

Re: [Evolution-hackers] massive e-d-s memory leak persuit ...

2008-01-28 Thread Michael Meeks
]/Frequent Contacts/cache.db -rw-r--r-- 1 michael users 12K 2007-04-19 16:32 ./cache/addressbook/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/Michael Meeks/cache.db -rw-r--r-- 1 michael users 21M 2007-04-23 09:44 ./cache/addressbook/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/Novell GroupWise Address Book/cache.db -rw-r--r-- 1 michael users 12K 20

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Evolution: Taking forward...

2008-07-11 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Paul, On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 15:30 +0200, Paul Bolle wrote: > > * Move Evolution licensing to "LGPL v2 and LGPL v3" to let us re-use > > the code more easily around the platform. > > Did you mean LGPLv2 _or_ LGPLv3 here? Yes; it's dual licensed - which gives people rather a choice of

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Evolution: Taking forward...

2008-07-11 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Paul, On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 12:46 -0400, Paul Smith wrote: > Once you start accepting a significant amount of code without copyright > assignment, it will be difficult to the point of impossibility to change > the license again. Yes. Hence (in part) the choice of a more liberal / lesse

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Evolution: Taking forward...

2008-07-14 Thread Michael Meeks
On Sat, 2008-07-12 at 13:56 +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote: > Could you consider talking with the samba guys to make libmapi LGPLv3? > That would make things much easier, right? Yep - would make life easier; OTOH I've spoken to them in the past along these lines - but though they were init

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Unauthorised licence change to e-spinner.[ch]

2008-09-06 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Christian, On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 15:16 +0200, Christian Persch wrote: > Both of these claims are false. Wow - that is bad. Reverting immediately, sorry [ and thanks for picking this up so quickly ! ]. > e-spinner.[ch] is derived from ephy-spinner.[ch] from Epiphany, and I > hold the c

Re: [Evolution-hackers] [opensuse-gnome] Evolution 2.22 for Factory

2008-09-23 Thread Michael Meeks
On Sat, 2008-09-20 at 00:47 -0500, Hans Petter Jansson wrote: > Wouldn't it be possible to use a different directory, e.g. > "mail/local-index/folders.db"? That would avoid both problems. That seems like a great idea to me; at least - if the 'hot' data set of evolution is normally just th

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 ver

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 in

Re: [Evolution-hackers] [Evolution] Beagle and Tracker, letting Evolution feed those beasts RDF triples instead

2008-12-10 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Philip, On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 19:59 +0100, Philip Van Hoof wrote: > > http://live.gnome.org/Evolution/Metadata > > For early visitors of that page, refresh because I have added/changed > quite a lot of it already. Looks really good. The only thing that I don't quite understan

Re: [Evolution-hackers] [Evolution] Beagle and Tracker, letting Evolution feed those beasts RDF triples instead

2008-12-10 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Philip, On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 12:49 +0100, Philip Van Hoof wrote: > > What does the lifecycle for the data in that Unset store look like ? > > I think the LifeCycle is best described by this document: > > http://live.gnome.org/MetadataOnRemovableDevices > > It specifies a metadata cache fo

Re: [Evolution-hackers] [Tracker] [Evolution] Beagle and Tracker, letting Evolution feed those beasts RDF triples instead

2008-12-15 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Mikkel, On Sat, 2008-12-13 at 00:18 +0100, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote: > Is it that big a problem? I mean if you store 100,000 uris of avg. > length 50 chars you will have a file about 5mb... One needs only keep > an absolute minimum amount of metadata around. Well, true - it's

[Evolution-hackers] camel-folder-summary.c - 64bit-ness ...

2009-01-05 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi guys, I was just trying to reproduce some migration performance tests with my mbox and summary data rsync'd from a 32bit machine to a 64bit machine. Surprisingly this appears to crash immediately. Looking at the camel-file-utils.c code I was surprised to see simultaneously an a

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Status of the DBus port, future plans

2009-01-21 Thread Michael Meeks
On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 17:36 +, Chenthill wrote: > On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 14:50 +, Ross Burton wrote: > > At present it contains a minimal port of the addressbook part of > > eds-dbus to a fairly current (~1 week old) EDS tree. This mostly works > > and after a little cleanup should be read

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Camel Manifesto

2009-11-20 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Matthew, On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 14:07 -0500, Matthew Barnes wrote: > With work on Bonobo removal wrapping up, I've finally started taking a > closer look at Camel (Evolution's mail storage and networking library) Ah - another life-time of cleaning up, and polishing code: the goal sounds

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Camel Manifesto

2009-11-26 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Matthew, On Fri, 2009-11-20 at 10:46 -0500, Matthew Barnes wrote: > There may be isolated cases internally to Camel where it can exploit > parallelism in CPU-intensive tasks with threading or where threads are > necessary for interacting with synchronous-only libraries, but it should > be used

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Camel Manifesto

2009-11-30 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Matthew, On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 11:58 -0500, Matthew Barnes wrote: > In fact the mail-to-eds effort is part of what's motivating all this. Ah ! - ok :-) sounds good. > To make the discussion more concrete, these are my current plans for > Camel's extreme makeover. The final API will h

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Moving from the single mbox file format for the local folders

2009-12-16 Thread Michael Meeks
On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 01:16 +0530, Chenthill wrote: > One advantage which I see with #1 is that its a standard way. One thing about both approaches, is that they will consume more space; eg. on my 'Sent' folder with 21k messages - on average (on ext3) we will chew ~2k of space for each of

[Evolution-hackers] camel-folder-summary locking ...

2010-02-26 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi guys, I just hit a nasty in camel-folder-summary; suggested patch attached, seemingly a simple problem of a re-enterancy hazard in the same thread with a ghashtable: Thread 121 (Thread 0xa7f37b70 (LWP 23631)): #0 0xb68c13ef in g_hash_table_resize (hash_table=) at ghash.c:424 #1 g_ha

[Evolution-hackers] edbus branch review ...

2010-02-26 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi guys, I have a new fun branch (to review for merging) mmeeks-gdbus-import So I am wickedly piling up other misc. fixes in there (so they don't mask other issues) - but I have the edbus code imported, and running - and, indeed, it seems to block rather less nastily than

Re: [Evolution-hackers] camel-folder-summary locking ...

2010-03-01 Thread Michael Meeks
On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 22:20 +, Michael Meeks wrote: > I just hit a nasty in camel-folder-summary; suggested patch attached, > seemingly a simple problem of a re-enterancy hazard in the same thread > with a ghashtable: Ok; this was fixed by Chen's reversion of f

[Evolution-hackers] looong blockup in the UI ...

2010-03-02 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi guys, I just got an, oh - several second blocking of the UI of Evolution inside: Thread 1 (Thread 0xb5c1a740 (LWP 775)): #0 0xe424 in __kernel_vsyscall () #1 0xb6d56aef in fsync () from /lib/libpthread.so.0 #2 0xb5fc0cbc in write_to_temp_file (err=, dest_file=, length=, co

Re: [Evolution-hackers] edbus branch review ...

2010-03-16 Thread Michael Meeks
On Sat, 2010-02-27 at 09:37 +, Ross Burton wrote: > On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 22:31 +0000, Michael Meeks wrote: > > Thoughts / flameage ? :-) > > My thoughts are "woohoo" and "great work". If I'm feeling brave on > Sunday I'll start a

[Evolution-hackers] alarm-notify ...

2010-04-23 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi guys, I was reading calendar/gui/alarm-dialog/alarm-notify.c - trying (of course) to work out why alarm delivery is apparently not working at all. I just committed some code enabling dbus threading - without which you can quite happily use dbus from multiple threads, only it wi

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Evo and Kolab2 - a fresh attempt

2010-05-26 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Christian, On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 11:15 +0200, Christian Hilberg wrote: > > This sounds pretty cool and would be a welcome addition to the Evolution > > suite. Agreed. > We'll check that out with other Gnome projects. It may take some more > research > on the project itself before we

Re: [Evolution-hackers] evolution-kolab: Lifting the veil

2010-07-08 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Christian, You write-up sounds really exciting :-) On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 10:28 +0200, Christian Hilberg wrote: > We will try to map as much of Kolab's functionality as possible onto > Evolution whithout changing Evolution itself (other than providing a plugin, > that is). Especially

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Memory leaks

2010-09-08 Thread Michael Meeks
On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 16:32 +0200, Milan Crha wrote: > On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 13:10 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > > The fixes I mentioned are sitting in my working tree, and I'll commit > > and push them today. This is awesome work - thanks ! :-) > > If they're referenced by a global v

[Evolution-hackers] help debugging a disk-space leak ...

2011-04-08 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi there, I have (perhaps) an unusal setup - I get mail to an IMAP inbox, and then filter much of it off to local storage, and move the rest manually as I need to. I have around 1000 mostly short, text only messages in my IMAP inbox; and yet: du -m /home/michael/.local/share/evo