Move Evolution to Extras?

[Sean Bruno]

On Wed, 2006-12-27 at 04:14 -0500, Lyvim Xaphir wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-12-27 at 04:10 -0500, Lyvim Xaphir wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 18:58 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 09:11 -0400, Dimi Paun wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 07:42 -0400, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > > > Evolution belongs in the bitbucket.
> > > > 
> > > > Alan,
> > > > 
> > > > This is pretty scary. Switching people off email clients like
> > > > this is a big problem. People get really attached to their MUAs
> > > > for lots of reasons, not in the least being that their mail 
> > > > archives can't be easily moved from client to client.
> > > > 
> > > > Guys, Red Hat has been pushing Evo for a _long_ time now. It has
> > > > to stay behind their choices, not force millions of users to switch
> > > > at a drop of a hat (pun intended :)).
> > > > 
> > > > This is a lot more serious than switching web browsers or other
> > > > apps. Too many people will get affected, and rightfully pissed
> > > > at RH. Silly excuses that you couldn't hire people to work on it
> > > > will not fly.
> > > > 
> > > > I'm really surprised that folks at RH throw around such scenarios
> > > > without thinking a bit about consequences. How can enterprises trust
> > > > you with any technological guidance/decision when you are willing to
> > > > do things that would cost them untold millions without even blinking?
> > > 
> > > You are over over-dramatizing. This is not a place for enterprises to
> > > get technology guidance and nobody's personal opinions here is going to
> > > cost anyone untold millions.  
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Rahul
> > 
> > 
> > He's not over-dramatizing anything, he's telling the truth.  Evo
> > occupies a slot now, and it's stupid to throw it in the bitbucket.
> > Period.
> > 
> > LX
> 
> 
> Forget any other posts that I send in this thread, there was a date
> screwup on my system.  Sorry about the confusion.
> 
> LX
> 

Isn't Evolution sort of, kind of, maintained by our fair friends over at
Novell/Suse ?  Does that have anything to do with this "Death to Evo"
thread?

The only over riding reason to _still_ use Evolution is to interface
directly to a MS Exchange server.  

I happen to use it out of habit, not because it's better/worse.  I
perceive the mail filtering rules to be easier to configure and more
robust than Thunderbird, but that may be _MY_ perception.

Sean

Sean