[Kolab-devel] kolab2 dependencies/integration

[Richard Bos]

Op dinsdag 21 juni 2005 21:03, schreef Corey:
> How much of the Kolab2 distribution/package consists of actual sourcecode
> patches to the various existing components ( openldap, cyrus, postfix, etc
> ) it uses, and how much of the distribution/package is simply configuration
> files, installation scripts, and whatnot?
>
> Is the Kolab project bound and determined to keep it's source packages as
> openpkg only?  There really should be a way for distributions/platforms to
> provide their own native packages for Kolab, for better/natural integration
> with existing software/services.
>
> So, although openpkg works, as you say - "to provide a supportable base on
> a wide variety of platforms" - it _also_ works to "provide a completely
> foreign step-child sort of integration on every platform that it's
> installed onto".
>
> How difficult would it be, now that Kolab2 has been released, to extract
> only the Kolab specific changes/patches ( if any ), and provide a
> non-openpkg distribution? OpenXchange does this to good effect, I don't see
> why Kolab do the same.  Of course installation and configuration of Kolab
> without using the openpkg tools may be difficult, but it really should be
> an option.

http://wiki.kolab.org/index.php/Kolab2_linux_distribution_integration

The wiki page above is about an attempt to make kolab just portable.  Which is 
of course more work and more difficult, but at the end its easier for all.  I 
hope you can help with this attempt.

-- 
Richard Bos
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