mail and contacts app

[Jon Phillips]

On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 17:21 -0700, Richi Plana wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 23:21 +0100, Koen Kooi wrote:
> > Right, there's one snag: tinymail uses its own forked little version of EDS, so if you use
> > tinymail + openmoko PIM, you will have *2* copies of the EDS libs on your device :(
> 
> Well, I'd like to know the rationale behind the use of a forked version.
> As far as I know, there was mention on these lists that we were already
> eying a modified version of EDS ... one that's designed specifically for
> use in embedded platforms (lower memory usage and performance) as well
> as offering interfaces via D-Bus (another, it seems, preferred OpenMoko
> subsystem). The project is called Embedded Evolution Data Server
> <http://projects.o-hand.com/eds>.
> 
> The thread started here:
> http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/openmoko-devel/2007-January/000073.html
> 
> Does that make it three versions of EDS we're talking about (the Novell
> original, Philip van Hoof's and EEDS)? Or is Phillip's and EEDS the
> same?

No, actually, that is the version that these systems use. So, if that is
the case, then we have one unified one :)

Jon

> People who're interested in tinymail should really follow Phillip's blog
> <http://pvanhoof.be/blog/>. I've been reading his posts via
> http://planet.gnome.org/ for some time now.
> --
> 
> Richi Plana
> 
> 
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