[KLUG Members] Ximian Evolution 1.2

[Adam Bultman]

I agree. I installed it at the coaxing of a friend of mine, and I can't
even check my mail anymore.  I need to use mozilla mail now, because I
ALSO can't install the 'normal' version of evolution anymore.  Oops.

Adam

On 21 Nov 2002, Bruce Smith wrote:

> Yesterday I received an announcement from Ximian about the newly
> released Evolution version 1.2.  So I installed red-carpet on my Redhat
> 8.0 workstation, subscribed to the Evolution channel and installed it.
>
> To anyone else who may be considering doing the same, I HIGHLY recommend
> you think twice.  I found evolution 1.2 to be a total bug-fest.  Once
> every couple minutes I got a popup telling me that my IMAP server
> disconnected unexpected.  (my IMAP server is a stock Redhat 7.3 system)
> It also had serious problems reading messages off my IMAP server, where
> it work only work less than half the time, giving me popup errors when
> it failed.  (plus other bugs)
>
> Having enough of it, I manually downgraded myself to the Evolution
> version that comes on Redhat 8.0.  Ximian upgrades 9 Redhat packages and
> installs 5 packages of their own.  Switching back is a real pain because
> of dependency problems and file conflicts in the RPM's.
>
> Just a warning to anyone thinking of trying the new Evolution.
> I'd wait until a couple bug-fix releases  . . .  unless you're
> real good at RPM dependency-hell to uninstall.
>
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> Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
> System Administrator / Network Administrator
> Armstrong International, Inc.
> Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
> http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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