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besson3c · Oct 29, 2003, 09:01 PM

Hello,

At one point Evolution was available as a fink package. It no longer is, and I haven't heard back from the Fink package maintainer of Evolution.

Evolution has a plug-in available which will let you access the MS Exchange environment. I'd like to compile Evolution to see if it might be any better than using Outlook 2001 in Classic.

Does anybody know where I can compile the source that will work in OS X, or know of when Evolution might be added back to Fink?

This might be a better question for the Unix forum, sorry if my judgement is impaired.

neoTony · Oct 29, 2003, 09:15 PM

Not sure as to the status of Evolution - I was updating the port of GNOME to fink (which would've made the latest evolution compile without too many problems), but why don't you check out Panther? Mail.app has exchange integration now...

besson3c · Oct 29, 2003, 09:31 PM

Originally posted by neoTony:
Not sure as to the status of Evolution - I was updating the port of GNOME to fink (which would've made the latest evolution compile without too many problems), but why don't you check out Panther? Mail.app has exchange integration now...

I have checked out Panther. Mail.app is not a MAPI client. Its support of Exchange is simply awareness of the folder structure, and the ability to authenticate to ADS to access the Exchange GAL.

I don't use Exchange myself, but I know of several people who do. Just exploring the options, as I know several Linux people who use Evolution as an Outlook alternative.

nobitacu · Oct 29, 2003, 09:35 PM

I didn't even know this app runs on Mac OS X, I guess it's because I've never looked into it since I use Mail. But yea, Ximian Evolution is what I used when I was a full time Linux user. I really like it too. It did my jobs well. Mail is better now though of course.

Ming

clarkgoble · Oct 30, 2003, 01:14 PM

Give fink a week or two to get caught up. I'm still having trouble with some things in fink under Panther. (i.e. KDE) I'm sure after a while it'll all work.

Sven G · Oct 31, 2003, 10:37 AM

BTW, GNOME, in general, in Fink seems to be quite outdated: their official binary version is still at 1.4, while the most recent GNOME desktop is now at 2.4 - a little strange (only a no maintainers problem?), as KDE, OTOH, has always been more or less up-to-date...

alfredo · Jan 12, 2004, 01:38 PM

I downloaded Evolution, but libsoup would not build. everything else seemed OK

configure: WARNING: You have neither Glib threads nor the function
gethostbyname_r. This means that calls to
gethostbyname (called by the Soup address
functions) will not be thread safe so could
malfunction in programs that use threads.
checking IPv6 support... yes
checking for gtkdoc-mkdb... true
checking for db2html... false
configure: error: conditional "BUILD_PROXY" was never defined.
Usually this means the macro was only invoked conditionally.
### execution of ./configure failed, exit code 1
Failed: compiling libsoup-1.99.26-1 failed

waffffffle · Jan 12, 2004, 02:14 PM

FYI, the part of Evolution that lets you use an exchange server is not free. You have to buy that addon from Ximian. I think its about $100 each. It probably isn't offered for OS X.

clarkgoble · Jan 12, 2004, 02:17 PM

Gnome 2.2 was in the unstable under Jaguar. I talked to the guy about it for Panther a few weeks ago and said they hoped to be up to date soon. We'll see. I think because of the holidays and probably their day jobs they are behind.

If you are frustrated with Fink, check out Darwin Ports which has far fewer ports but tend to be more up to date than Fink. Their Gnome is better, for instance, and is at 2.4.

http://darwinports.opendarwin.org/ports/

I've been becoming frustrated with Fink the last while and have seriously thought about switching. (Probably I'll have both but will make my path check Darwin Ports first)

MacGorilla · Jan 12, 2004, 03:59 PM

Gnome 2.4 is in fink unstable. It just needs testerd now so it can be moved to stable. It has a new maintainer now and he intends to track Gnome development so that fink is only a week behind the gnome team (he is tackling the alpha versions of 2.5 now).

clarkgoble · Jan 12, 2004, 08:10 PM

Cool. Time for update-all...

I've not updated since before Christmas. Did they get KOffice working?

MacGorilla · Jan 12, 2004, 08:18 PM

On fink? No. Aqua, kinda in a buggy crashy way.