On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 13:55 +0300, Tor Lillqvist wrote: > > I haven't had much luck with the Evos-for-Windows - I hope the upcoming > > Bonobo, etc... free builds may be more portable. > Maybe, maybe not. Firstly, there needs to be a stable dbus port to > Windows. Currently the dbus situation on Windows is a bit unclear. > There are several competing ports, with unclear and perhaps > conflicting goals and policies regarding upstreaming etc. (Hopefully I > am just pessimistic here, so sorry if you think this sounds like FUD.)
I don't think it is FUD. :) I've been a UNIX admin for almost two decades - pessimism is my middle name. I'm aware of the D-Bus issue as I develop .NET (Mono) apps... and there is no D-Bus on Win32. :( Porting non-trivial apps across platforms is ... non-trivial! > Secondly somebody needs to keep the Evolution et al code buildable and > working on Windows, and somebody (else?) needs to create installers > etc. (Well, me and Fridrich probably will keep trying, in our copious > spare time... Sadly I must admit I haven't for instance built > Evolution myself in half a year at least.) Understood. > > It really might be more useful for you to contact the people > > who did the port > We are listening;) _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
