Re: [Pan-users] Re: pan and gmime 2.4.0

[George Sherwood]

On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:36:40 +0000 (UTC)
Duncan <address@hidden> wrote:

> George Sherwood <address@hidden> posted
> address@hidden, excerpted below, on  Mon, 29
> Sep 2008 16:38:35 -0500:
> 
> > I found this bug [0] concerning pan and gmime 2.4.0, but it appears
> > that it is unfinished.  Now the gmime 2.4.0 is released, does any
> > one know if more work has been done?
> > 
> > After installing gmime 2.4.0 pan wouldn't start due to a missing
> > library and the configure fails with gmime 2.4.0.  For now I have
> > downgraded to gmime 2.2.22 on my computer.
> > 
> > [0] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=541676
> > 
> > George Sherwood
> > Lead Developer
> > Sourcemage GNU/Linux (http://www.sourcemage.org)
> 
> Sourcemage, eh?  Welcome from a fellow from-source (Gentoo) user! =:^)
> 
> Unfortunately I don't have much help for you.  As of my sync earlier 
> today, the latest gmime in the Gentoo tree is 2.2.23, which is what
> I'm running.  I checked Gentoo bugs just in case.  Nothing on gmime
> 2.4 there either.  It seems you're out in front on this one.  (gmime
> 2.4.0 was released Sept. 26, last Friday.)
> 
> It's worth noting that Jeff Steadfast, the guy who filed the bug you 
> found and referenced above, is the gmime lead dev.  IOW, there should
> be few issues with that patch being bad, just as he said,
> incomplete.  If he's suggesting moving the one function out of old
> gmime into pan, that pretty much guarantees there's no good
> replacement for it in the new gmime.
> 
> The caveat might be backward compatibility.  With gtk+ 2.14, the
> initial patches developed killed backward compatibility.  Dan Rahn
> (OpenSuse) worked hard at creating a backward compatible solution,
> with me helping to test it.  Eventually he came up with one that
> worked on SuSE and Gentoo both, we bugged it, and it became part of
> pan 0.133.
> 
> Anyway... thanks for the heads-up, as I expect I'll be dealing with
> the issue soon myself.  I work with the Gentoo devs to try to keep
> pan patched up and working there, having submitted the pan-9999 svn
> ebuild now in the tree and have relayed/tested various other bugs and
> patches, so yes, I definitely expect to be dealing with this pretty
> quickly.  I'm CCing myself to the bug above.
> 

Duncan,
      Have you heard anything on this?  Do you know if Gentoo is
      getting close to unmasking gmime 2.4.0?

Thanks,
     George Sherwood
      Lead Developer
      Source Mage GNU/Linux (http://www.sourcemage.org)

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