On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:36:40 +0000 (UTC) Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> George Sherwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted > [EMAIL PROTECTED], 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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