State of gmime (mail/gmime24)

Thu Apr 15 09:08:06 UTC 2010

(To mnag@: I added you in cc, your opinion might enlighten us)

Hi John,

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 11:19:04PM -0700, John Prather wrote:
> I've been maintaining a port which provides a plugin for Pidgin
> (net-im/pidgin-sipe), which has recently introduced the option to
> build a telepathy plugin in addition to or instead of the purple
> plugin.
> 
> Building the telepathy plugin causes gnu configure to require gmime
> 2.4 >= 2.4.16 (mail/gmime24 is 2.4.10 currently) or gmime 2.6 >= 2.5.2
> (seems to be no 2.6 port yet).

According to the GNOME ftp, none of gmime-2.4.16 and gmime-2.5.2 are
available yet.
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gmime/2.4/
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gmime/2.5/

For the records, the mail/gmime24 repocopy of mail/gmime2 was created
because deskutils/tomboy depended on mail/gmime2-sharp but this port
could not be installed anymore after a lang/mono update enforcing some
basic security restrictions.  Only the 2.4 series was updated according
to this so I asked the maintainer of mail/gmime2 for an update to the
2.4 series.

However, there a incompatibilities between the 2.2 and 2.4 series. We so
created a new mail/gmime24 port that can be installed besides to the
mail/gmime2 ports, in order to avoid breaking existing ports that
depended on it.

Since mail/gmime<x> and mail/gmime<x>-sharp ports have master/slave
relationship, I continue to have a look on mail/gmime24 cause I maintain
mail/gmime24-sharp, and the latest stable version (2.4.15) is available
in the BSD# repo (and should therefore be pushed to FreeBSD ports in a
short range of time):
http://code.google.com/p/bsd-sharp/source/detail?r=785

> I've found that I can easily patch one of the bug fixes I found
> (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=613653#c8) that the sipe
> developers deemed necessary into the 2.4.10 port, however I'm wary of
> going crazy with freebsd patches for 2.4.10 if we are going to have
> 2.4.16 out in the near future, or 2.6 >= 2.5.2 made available.  Also,
> there may be other important bug fixes, though the others which i
> found that the sipe developers were concerned with were all related to
> building on Windows.

I don't think the development version (2.5 series) will ever have a
port.

> Do we feel that patching 2.4.10 with relatively simple patches would
> be a decent approach, or should we wait for either 2.4.16 release and
> the corresponding port update or 2.6 to be added into ports?  I partly
> feel we should wait for the correct versions to be made available, but
> it seems silly to wait weeks or months or more and deal with someone
> having to port a whole new release over such a simple fix.

I would wait for a stable release upstream.  However this patch is as
you said « relatively simple » and is unlikely to break existing code.
Since I am not the maintainer of mail/gmime{2,24}, I added mnag@ in Cc.
He might be of good advices.

I do not cut-off the rest of the original message for him.

Thanks,
Romain

> Here is what the patches look like which seem to apply nicely to
> 2.4.10 in mail/gmime24:
> 
> (i'm sure the email turned tabs to spaces, but you can see the gist of
> it.  I can post the unmangled patch files somewhere if they are
> desired)
> 
> [root at bsdlaptop /usr/ports/mail/gmime24]# cat
> files/patch-gmime_gmime.c
> *** gmime/gmime.c.orig  Tue Apr 13 22:45:25 2010
> --- gmime/gmime.c       Tue Apr 13 22:46:09 2010
> ***************
> *** 141,147 ****
>  {
>        if (--initialized)
>                return;
> !
>        g_mime_charset_map_shutdown ();
>        g_mime_iconv_shutdown ();
>  }
> --- 141,148 ----
>  {
>        if (--initialized)
>                return;
> !
> !       g_mime_object_shutdown();
>        g_mime_charset_map_shutdown ();
>        g_mime_iconv_shutdown ();
>  }
> [root at bsdlaptop /usr/ports/mail/gmime24]# cat
> files/patch-gmime_gmime-object.c
> *** gmime/gmime-object.c.orig   Tue Apr 13 22:46:38 2010
> --- gmime/gmime-object.c        Tue Apr 13 22:48:48 2010
> ***************
> *** 1061,1068 ****
>        g_free (bucket);
>  }
> 
> ! static void
> ! type_registry_shutdown (void)
>  {
>        g_hash_table_foreach (type_hash, type_bucket_foreach, NULL);
>        g_hash_table_destroy (type_hash);
> --- 1061,1068 ----
>        g_free (bucket);
>  }
> 
> ! void
> ! g_mime_object_shutdown (void)
>  {
>        g_hash_table_foreach (type_hash, type_bucket_foreach, NULL);
>        g_hash_table_destroy (type_hash);
> ***************
> *** 1075,1080 ****
>                return;
> 
>        type_hash = g_hash_table_new (g_mime_strcase_hash, g_mime_strcase_equal);
> -
> -       g_atexit (type_registry_shutdown);
>  }
> --- 1075,1078 ----
> [root at bsdlaptop /usr/ports/mail/gmime24]# cat files/patch-gmime_gmime-object.h
> *** gmime/gmime-object.h.orig   Tue Apr 13 22:49:01 2010
> --- gmime/gmime-object.h        Tue Apr 13 22:49:51 2010
> ***************
> *** 94,99 ****
> --- 94,100 ----
>  GType g_mime_object_get_type (void);
> 
>  void g_mime_object_register_type (const char *type, const char
> *subtype, GType object_type);
> + void g_mime_object_shutdown (void);
> 
>  GMimeObject *g_mime_object_new (GMimeContentType *content_type);
>  GMimeObject *g_mime_object_new_type (const char *type, const char *subtype);
> 
> 
> 
> --
> John Prather
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