[MacPorts] #52281: Port for evolution, based on devans at macports.org evolution-data-server

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#52281: Port for evolution, based on devans at macports.org evolution-data-server
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  Reporter:  gwhitney@…  |      Owner:  macports-tickets@…
      Type:  submission  |     Status:  new
  Priority:  Normal      |  Milestone:
 Component:  ports       |    Version:  2.3.4
Resolution:              |   Keywords:
      Port:  evolution   |
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Description changed by larryv@…:

Old description:

> Years ago, I was active with macports and had a login (in
> fact I still have a wiki page https://trac.macports.org/wiki/gwhitney),
> but it's been so long I'm not really up to speed on how to contribute
> ports directly any longer, and I don't even know how to log in as the
> "macports me" any more.
>
> But I recently had an interest in getting Evolution, the classic gnome
> email/calendar/addressbook app, running on my mac running El Capitan.
> The attached Portfile and patches worked; they are heavily based on Dave
> Evans'
> evolution-data-server port. If it would be helpful to get me back up to
> speed as a maintainer to move this along, feel free to point me in the
> right direction.
>
> Some notes:
>    * some of the patches were for the sake of running with gnome-autoar,
> but I eventually punted on that because the gnome-autoar api has changed
> considerably since evolution 3.20.5 was released (and that's the version
> of evolution-data-server in Dave Evans' port, and evolution has to match
> that). When evolution updates, likely the gnome-autoar support can be
> re-enabled (and I would be happy to give that a try at that point).
>
>    * I patched both configure and configure.ac in parallel, but since
> this build does not run autogen, the patches to configure.ac are not
> strictly necessary.  But it seemed worthwhile to submit the configure.ac
> patches anyway, in case anyone working on this at any point wants to run
> autogen
>
>    Let me know what (else) I can do to (help) make this evolution port
> available to anyone who happens to be interested.
>
>    Best regards, Glen
> --
> Glen Whitney
> President, National Museum of Mathematics

New description:

 Years ago, I was active with macports and had a login (in
 fact I still have a [[gwhitney|wiki page]]),
 but it's been so long I'm not really up to speed on how to contribute
 ports directly any longer, and I don't even know how to log in as the
 "macports me" any more.

 But I recently had an interest in getting Evolution, the classic gnome
 email/calendar/addressbook app, running on my mac running El Capitan.
 The attached Portfile and patches worked; they are heavily based on Dave
 Evans'
 evolution-data-server port. If it would be helpful to get me back up to
 speed as a maintainer to move this along, feel free to point me in the
 right direction.

 Some notes:
    * some of the patches were for the sake of running with gnome-autoar,
 but I eventually punted on that because the gnome-autoar api has changed
 considerably since evolution 3.20.5 was released (and that's the version
 of evolution-data-server in Dave Evans' port, and evolution has to match
 that). When evolution updates, likely the gnome-autoar support can be re-
 enabled (and I would be happy to give that a try at that point).
    * I patched both configure and configure.ac in parallel, but since this
 build does not run autogen, the patches to configure.ac are not strictly
 necessary.  But it seemed worthwhile to submit the configure.ac patches
 anyway, in case anyone working on this at any point wants to run autogen

 Let me know what (else) I can do to (help) make this evolution port
 available to anyone who happens to be interested.

 Best regards, Glen\\
 --\\
 Glen Whitney\\
 President, National Museum of Mathematics

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