I am the developer of blueZync (see http://bluezync.kaarposoft.dk/) which is based on OpenSync (see http://www.opensync.org/). blueZync can synchronize Thunderbird/Sunbird with a mobile phone (and many other peers). I would like blueZync to work on Fedora too (currently developing on Debian and Ubuntu). However, to compile blueZync, development packages for thunderbird are needed (i.e. header files, idl files etc). It seems that this has already been requested years ago in bug 174295, but it seems to have autoclosed and been forgotten.
There doesn't seem to be rush on this, though ... apparently blueZync requires versions of opensync packages which are not yet in Fedora. Please, file a bug against opensync component, blocking this and bug 528321. These two bugs then can be blocking Package Review of blueZync.
Matej, you are right: No rush. However, if thunderbird-devel and sunbird-devel would be provided, it would be possible to build opensync and blueZync from source - like we do for Ubuntu etc. This way we could develop and test on Fedora as well. /Henrik
(In reply to comment #1) > There doesn't seem to be rush on this, though ... apparently blueZync requires > versions of opensync packages which are not yet in Fedora. IIRC we did especially downgrade opensync to the versions we currently have because the newer packages are not considered stable by upstream and do not work properly. See https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-March/msg01685.html (In reply to comment #2) > However, if thunderbird-devel and sunbird-devel would be provided, it would be > possible to build opensync and blueZync from source - like we do for Ubuntu > etc. You mean you are building blueZync against the source of opensync and not against the opensync-devel package provided in Fedora? This is a no-go for us (and IIRC for Debian and others, too). See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:No_Bundled_Libraries
Just to clarify... I do *not* suggest to include blueZync as an official Fedora package yet. I believe that when the new version of opensync (as well as some prerequisites such as libsyncml) is production ready, it would be included in Fedora. At that point, I would then suggest to include blueZync as well. All I am saying is, that the provision of thunderbird-devel and sunbird-devel in Fedora now would help upstream in the development phase.
Ah, ok, this makes sense. Thanks for the clarification.
Any news on this? Fedora seems to be the first distro to use Thunderbird 3, so it would be great to have the -dev files
There seems to be missing .pc files for pkg-config in Thunderbird 3.0 sources. That's the major problem with creating devel package now. See the external bug for further info.
The external bug does not seem to have the attention of upstream )-: In any case it is a bit strange, because Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 sources DO have those, whereas 3.0b4 sources do not. Could those files be provided by the disto as part of the package? I would guess that the 2.0.0.23 versions could be used as inspiration...
You're right, TB 2.0.0.23 have these files in package. There is a plan to rewrite Thunderbird 3+ to use libxul dynamically (it is not possible now). Until this is done I'm not sure Mozilla is going to do much effort in creating .pc files as long as these files after the rewrite would differ. I try to help them in rewriting process and I'll track this devel package issue.
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