[Kroupware] Re: [Kde-pim] kontact

[Don Sanders]

On Wednesday 12 March 2003 19:25, Ralf Nolden wrote:
> On Mittwoch, 12. März 2003 05:17, Don Sanders wrote:
> > 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 out of date as it won't cover all the new features.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?
>
> Sorry, I'm lacking the time to do that currently.
>
> > 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.
>
> No, I used the branch for my system and then installing kontact
> after compiling it against the branch in a chroot, so I made sure I
> don't have any stuff from HEAD around in my build systems.

And you don't experience this when running KAddressBook from the 
KDE_3_1_BRANCH? That would be surprising as KAddressBook from 
kontact.0.2.1 and the KDE_3_1_BRANCH are very similar.

Don.