On Tue, 2017-12-05 at 12:24 +0200, Gottfried wrote: > This is actually the problem. how come that Ubuntu and therefore > LinuxMint use such an old version of Evolution? can't they just pass on > a newer version?
Evolution is not a standalone programme. There are multiple parts to it and each of those parts has dependencies on other parts of the Gnome ecosystem. Although it is possible to run, say, Evolution 3.26 in a Gnome 3.24 environment, the more separate the two versions are, the more difficult it becomes; eventually you will come across something that makes it impossible and the only solution is to upgrade the underlying Gnome libraries (which has consequences for other packages). > The version used is by far not stable, at least not any > more. And I do need different software in order to keep different > accounts separate. To put all the emails I have now collected over the > years into Thunderbird would blow that thing up and make it useless. Do > I really have to run then Evo on a Windows PC, just because the > distributors decided to love only their own thing? That does not sound > very credible. There is no functioning version of Evolution for Windows. The best thing to do is to ask on your distro's mailing lists / forums about this. I'm not (definitely not) an Ubuntu user, but I know there are PPAs (I think that's the correct term) out there that supposedly allow you to upgrade Evolution to a newer version. > > Claws Mail is a kind of medieval client that I use for security reasons > in a different account. So what would be possible to do? change the > whole distribution? But don't the other distributions limit the other > software that I am using? In my understanding Ubuntu/LinuxMint are those > distributions that make most apps accessible. I think you have a wrong understanding there. There are lots of distros that make just as many apps "accessible". It depends on what you want to run and how bleeding edge you want to be. I use Fedora and I've not yet come across anything useful that I can't run and that's available in standard repos. Lots of people swear by rolling release distros such as Arch to keep up to date. YMMV. Pick something that satisfies your requirements and just use it - if your requirement is for an up to date Evolution (or anything else), then don't use an enterprise or LTS release. But this is now getting wayyyy of topic for the Evolution mailing list... 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
