Hey, On Sun, 2012-04-29 at 12:41 -0400, Matthew Barnes wrote: > Heya, > > I wanted to give some early warning about some significant API breaks > coming soon in Evolution-Data-Server which is going to break the E-D-S > backend in libfolks and will require some possibly significant rework. > > I expect to be merging an E-D-S branch called 'account-mgmt' some time > during 3.5, though I don't yet know exactly when. The branch completely > changes the way E-D-S stores and manages account information. It moves > the account data out of GConf to plain text files and adds a new D-Bus > service and client-side API for accessing the data. > > I plan to post a migration guide to the Evolution wiki soon but have not > yet started it. I do however have some other reference material posted. > > Overview of the new file format: > http://live.gnome.org/Evolution/ESourceFileFormat > > The new libedataserver API manual: > http://mbarnes.fedorapeople.org/account-mgmt/docs/libedataserver/
Thanks for the early warning. I’ll try and take a look at it over the next week or two, but my time’s quite limited. I've filed https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=675121 about porting folks to the changes, and added you to the CC list (hope you don’t mind). > Not for lack of trying, but unfortunately I don't yet know Vala well > enough to provide a patch myself. But I'm happy to assistant whomever > is maintaining the E-D-S backend if they wish to start adapting it > early, perhaps on a branch. The new APIs are fairly stable at this > point, as I've been fine-tuning them for over a year and have Evolution > fully adapted to use it. I *think* I have them properly annotated for > language bindings but may need some assistance there. > > If you have questions you can find me on the #evolution channel of > GimpNet IRC as mbarnes. Fixing any language binding issues shouldn’t be a problem. :-) Thanks for your work on this, Philip > Thanks, > Matthew Barnes > > > _______________________________________________ > telepathy mailing list > telepathy@lists.freedesktop.org > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/telepathy
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