[Kolab-devel] Volunteers for Kolab_Server at OpenPKG2.5 step up! :-)

[Buchan Milne]

On Thursday 22 September 2005 10:12, Henning Holtschneider wrote:
> On Thursday 22 September 2005 08:29, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> > If it was possible to install Kolab separately, without OpenPKG, it
> > would get into distros, and thus start getting serious attention.
>
> I don't think this would help much at this stage. First of all, it is
> already difficult for the Kolab developers to keep up with the pace of the
> OpenPKG people. How many more resources would be needed to stay current
> only with the major Linux distros?

You don't need to. They do it for you, if it is easy enough to do.

How do you think all 5000 other projects shipped with a reasonable distro stay 
in sync with each other? The package maintainers do it. We had some minor 
issues with Kolab and OpenLDAP 2.3 ... but I think they were much less work 
than getting around the OpenPKG stuff.

> Secondly, it is not sufficient to have a running Kolab server. You also
> need to have a matching client.

But, in most cases, not on the same machine.

> But as far as I know, a lot of code from 
> the Proko2 branch of kdepim still has to be merged into HEAD (or whatever
> is current for the KDE people :-) ).

kdepim isn't the only client. But, I don't see you saying toltec must be 
packaged in sync with the Kolab server software on the same distro.

> So, if you integrate the Kolab server into a distribution now, you either
> have to care about the KDE client, too, or you will end up with a
> half-broken setup. This will not attract more people.

To what? The distro, kdepim, or Kolab?

> Apart from that, and keeping philosophical views aside, I did not like the
> OpenPKG approach at first, either. But after installing it on several
> different distributions, I am glad that I didn't have to worry about
> distribution-specific problems!

But, you lose distribution specific tools. You lose visibility.

Regards,
Buchan

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Buchan Milne
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