[Kde-pim] KitchenSync + OpenSync Deadline

[Volker Krause]

On Friday 28 November 2008 01:32:08 Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> On Friday 28 November 2008 00:21:54 Cornelius Schumacher wrote:
> > On Thursday 27 November 2008 14:19:01 Allen Winter wrote:
> > > We are nearing the KDE 4.2 Beta2  tagging in less than 2 weeks (9 Dec).
> > > If Opensync 0.40 is not available a few days before that time, then
> > > we'll have no choice but to disable Kitchensync  and the Akonadi
> > > Opensync plugin from KDE 4.2.
> > >
> > > See [1]
> > >
> > > Can anyone provide a status update on Opensync 0.40?
> > > Is there any chance this deadline can be met?
> >
> > Daniel Gollub, the maintainer of OpenSync says that there is no chance of
> > OpenSync 0.40 being release within the next two weeks. So unfortunately
> > there doesn't seem a way around disabling Kitchensync and the Akonadi
> > OpenSync plugin.
>
> Mind my ignorance, but why not build it conditionally if the opensync
> version is at least 0.40, or whatever? (I'm assuming here that the akonadi
> plugin is bsically done, only needs a released version of opensync.)

The problem is that OpenSync keeps changing its API, the 0.40 release is 
supposed to finally end this and provide a stable API. So, this is not just 
about a check for >= 0.40 but possibly also about adapting to API changes.

regards
Volker
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