[Kroupware] Re: [Kde-pim] kontact

[Don Sanders]

On Wednesday 12 March 2003 14:11, Don Sanders wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 March 2003 23:07, Ralf Nolden wrote:
> > On Dienstag, 11. März 2003 14:18, Don Sanders wrote:
> > > On Friday 07 March 2003 19:48, Ralf Nolden wrote:
> > > > On Freitag, 7. März 2003 05:51, Don Sanders wrote:
> > > > > On Thursday 06 March 2003 16:14, Seth Kurtzberg wrote:
> > > > > > Hello list(s)
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I've been reading messages about kontact, and I wanted to
> > > > > > try it, so I pulled the latest from CVS and built it. 
> > > > > > That gives me a kontact directory, but I don't find an
> > > > > > executable named kontact. Is there something else to
> > > > > > build, or does the executable have a different name?
> > > > >
> > > > > For a version of Kontact that is known to work and be
> > > > > stable I suggest using the kdepim-kontact-0.2.1.tgz package
> > > > > on the Kontact website.
> > > >
> > > > It isn't complete :-) You need to move the docs over to the
> > > > kdepim package for the apps that got moved there too. Don,
> > > > can you package up a new version that does that ? People
> > > > asked me to provide debian packages for my repository so I
> > > > gave it a try and hit that bug.
> > >
> > > I'll look into that for the next package due at the end of the
> > > month. If people want the doc sooner I guess some packager will
> > > have to manually mv it for now.
> > >
> > > These releases are intended to stable and usable but not
> > > complete. Even if/when the doc is included it will still be out
> > > of date as it won't cover all the new features.
> >
> > Regarding being stable - I tried it and lost all of my
> > addressbook contacts
>
> I experienced a bug in HEAD that did that but not kontact.2.1.
>
> Can you reproduce it?

Yeah my first guess would be that you're running kontact.2.1 against 
HEAD kdelibs, and that there's a change of format between HEAD and 
the KDE_3_1_BRANCH, and that this change is backwards but not 
forwards compatible.

Don.