The Debian and Ubuntu .deb packages that I provide for SyncEvolution are created with a patched CheckInstall which works without root access. For the technically inclined I’d like to explain the reasons behind that; for everyone else I have good news about prebuilt packages for x86_64.
As I just wrote about Funambol’s iCalendar 2.0 support I might as well add a report about a recent development in that regard with ScheduleWorld: ScheduleWorld has had full support for iCalendar 2.0 for a long time. Recently the nightly testing showed a difference in the server’s behavior which IMHO could potentially affect users.
Funambol 6.0 improved support for iCalendar 2.0 (as used by Evolution and SyncEvolution) considerably, so people started using it although the support is not yet complete. However, there is one big problem and that has caused all kinds of bug reports: in the default configuration the Funambol server sends vCalendar 1.0 back to Evolution, which [...]
It seems that I have not advertised the new apt repository well enough: some users still compiled from some source even though binary packages were available and could have been installed via apt. There’s nothing wrong with compiling from source of course (it’s a good exercise and a first step towards making changes yourself), but [...]
This weekend saw the most gruesome death of several bugs which have affected SyncEvolution users with Evolution 2.12 and the iPhone. I don’t know whether any of these bugs were screaming “Today is a good day to die!” before gobbling their last byte, but some really put up a fight. Let me summarize what I [...]
I have dodged this question for a while: will I continue to work on SyncEvolution for the iPhone and add the currently missing support for calendars, notes and tasks? My own priority was to have contacts synced between Evolution and the iPhone. But others seem to depend a lot more on their calendar and immediately [...]
Pretty much on the day that Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy) was released with Evolution 2.12.0 inside and people upgraded to it, I started to get reports that the SyncEvolution 0.6 binaries no longer ran: they either failed to start due to missing libraries (easy to diagnose) or failed because the libraries were still there, but did [...]