On Mon, 2015-07-06 at 08:53 -0400, John Lauterbach wrote: > Perhaps I am oversimplifying things, but it appears that the > developers of Evolution are working far ahead of those who compile > the program for use with various Linux distributions.
No, not at all. You just happen to use a distro that doesn't care that Evolution is a long way behind in their repositories. There are plenty of distros that keep up to date. Fedora 22 is currently on 3.16.3. There are ultra stable distros (what Ubuntu calls "LTS" versions) that, by design, keeps the same version of an application throughout their long lifetime. In those cases the distro should commit to back porting patches, especially security ones, but they won't upgrade the app version and hence there won't be any feature enhancements. RHEL (and hence CentOS, SL, etc.) are in this class - RHEL7 has Evolution 3.8.5. You also have to remember that Evolution is a Gnome application - the version of Evolution usually matches the version of Gnome in a distro. If your distro has a pathological dislike of Gnome (or just Gnome 3) then you are going to have a hard time getting an up to date version of Evolution. > It also appears that if it were not for the efforts of Fabian > Tassin, I would be stuck using a very outdated version of Evolution. > Right now, I am using 3.16.0 (Ubuntu 15.04) when I should be (if I > have interpreted the postings on this list correctly) using 3.16.3. > I would be more than happy to try configuring (compiling?), if I had > some step-by-step instructions on how to do it. > If you have 3.16.x already installed, then it must already have many of the correct libraries. You will need the devel (or whatever your distro calls them) versions as well to get the header files. Then just download the evolution and evolution-data-server tar balls, unpack them and run configure. Note all the failed dependencies, sort those out, rinse, repeat. P. _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
