[Most of the text below was written in December 2019, but than unintentionally sent to an internal mailing list - no surprise that I never got any response!]
Hello! Over the Christmas holidays I worked on building a new SyncEvolution release. My current goal is to build for Ubuntu Bionic (most recent LTS) and support those binaries on all more recent Debian and Ubuntu releases. If possible, I'd like to drop unused features if they require extra effort. This mostly depends if someone still needs them. Let me list some features that I'd like to remove. If you still need them, please respond here: * At the top of that list is ActiveSync support. activesyncd no longer builds on Debian Stretch because it depends on libgnome-keyring, which was removed. It probably can be ported to libsecret, but that's extra work. * x86 (i.e. 32 bit) binaries - it doubles the testing effort. * RPMs - they never had proper dependencies and I am not sure whether they ever worked at all. * Akonadi support and KDE in general. I first encountered problem with Akonadi in Debian Stretch and reported it here with a stand-alone reproducer: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=369203 But as pointed out in that issue, the API that SyncEvolution uses is no longer supported and thus SyncEvolution would have to be ported to the current API, whatever that is - I haven't investigated that. * Port to Python 3 and stop supporting Python 2. Regarding the source code, I'd like merge all pending patches. This obviously includes all the changes that are required to build on more recent Linux distros, but also the C++ modernization that I started a while back. The result will be more than just a simple bug fix release, but also not something that has any new user-visible features. I'm not entirely happy with that, but I also don't want to be stuck completely in pure maintenance mode. I got testing on the newer Linux distros working with the updated code base already beginning of this year, but then got stuck because of a regression and lack of time to dig into that. Since then, the apt repo keys expired and I haven't renewed them because the binaries probably wouldn't work anyway. I suppose users would like to see binaries again, primarily because SyncEvolution fell out of Debian/Ubuntu? -- Best Regards Patrick Ohly _______________________________________________ SyncEvolution mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] %(web_page_url)slistinfo%(cgiext)s/%(_internal_name)s
