[Kolab-devel] Problem with Kolab Format

Gunnar Wrobel wrobel at kolabsys.com
Mon Aug 16 09:03:48 CEST 2010


Zitat von Alain Abbas <alain.abbas at libertech.fr>:

> Gunnar Wrobel a écrit :
>> Hi Alain,
>>
>> Quoting Alain Abbas <alain.abbas at libertech.fr>:
>>
>>> Hello
>>>
>>> The Kolab_Format from the PEAR is not the same than Kolab_Format from
>>> RPM  who makes mistakes and depending the installation makes Kolab_zpush
>>> not run
>>>
>>> 1) why the code is  different ???
>>
>> Because I'm not necessarily releasing the package every time I add a
>> small code change. I assume you are referring to the Kolab_Format
>> patch I specifically added for your Kolab_Zpush package. This was a
>> small fix solely required for the experimental Zpush package and I
>> didn't consider this enough of a change to make a new release.
>>
>> The releases are cheap however and if you have a specific need for an
>> updated package then it is no problem for me to provide that.
>
> The change was little but it was a major issue for me ( the sync simply
> doesn t work) and it seems that peoples who don t use openpkg use the
> PEAR for horde and naturaly for Kolab_Format.
> I changed the wiki to do not use PEAR anymore.
>
>
>
>>
>>> 2) how to update Kolab_Format   prior to Kolab 2.2.4 " with pear or other ?
>>
>> So far we do not support real PEAR based installations. The basic
>> Horde PEAR packages from Horde 3 were never really released as PEAR
>> packages. The Horde team intends to change that with Horde 4. I was
>> pretty much the only one on the Horde team who loved the PEAR packages
>> so the Kolab_* series always followed this release style.
>>
>> But the only real packages we currently support are the OpenPKG
>> packages. This is all that is tested to be useable. So I do not
>> recommend to base installations solely on PEAR.
>
> Perhaps good to change this Wiki page because this page refer to PEAR
> and confuse peoples (me first, that is why i believed in PEAR) :
> http://wiki.kolab.org/index.php/Horde_Kolab_Format

Valid argument. The Horde section of the wiki definitely needs an  
update. I should probably increase the time I spend with the wiki as I  
have not edited much there during the past year.

Cheers,

Gunnar

>
>
> Regards
> Alain
>
>
>>
>> I'd be in favor of changing that but currently only see this with
>> Horde 4. It only makes sense to fully support PEAR if upstream does
>> that.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Gunnar
>>
>>> Alain
>>> Regards
>>>
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