Re: [SyncEvolution] SyncEvolution in Fremantle

Hi, Patrick. I'm new to Maemo, but I've been a Debian Developer for a long time. I recently got a N900, and decided I really want to sync my stuff. I've managed to build the current syncevolution git on Maemo5 (in Scratchbox), however it did not build cleanly without a few changes (and I disabled shared libraries since cppunit was not available). Also when built with optimization it crashes immediately, but appears to at least start OK when built without optimization. I used the included debian/rules with a couple of extra environment variables set. (I'll allow anyone desperate enough to get the .deb I ended up with last night at http://www.ping.uio.no/~ovehk/maemo/ if they really, really, want, but it's obviously not anywhere near end-user-ready, there's no GUI, it's built without optimization, it seems to include flashmemory-space-wasting .h and .a files, and I disabled regular expressions.) Since N900's calendar application no longer uses the evolution backend (but something Nokia-specific, I guess - some C++ API on top of a sqlite database), I guess I may have to write a brand new backend in order to sync the calendar. N900's addressbook still uses the evolution backend, though. I managed to sync the addressbook in scratchbox, haven't tried the actual device yet.

Patrick Ohly skrev: > I'd love to see the latest SyncEvolution releases packaged properly for > Maemo, and so do users [6]. 0.8.1 still works fine on the older Maemo > releases it is available for, but 0.9 has several relevant improvements, > for example synchronization with Google Contacts and a GTK GUI. Hmm. If someone also made direct sync with Google Calendar, then it would be really useful...

> I'm posting here because I hope that an interested developer or > maintainer will step up and take over packaging for Maemo. You can be > sure that this will have full support when it comes to merging patches > and including the Maemo port as first-class citizen in releases. I don't suppose anyone else started working on this yet? If not, do you have any recommendations on where to start? What version of the software would it be best/easiest to try packaging, for instance, or is git head "stable" enough?