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Lightning 1.0beta1 release candidate is available

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Simon Paquet

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Dec 20, 2009, 10:02:08 AM12/20/09
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Hey guys,

after all the trouble that we went through to prepare the Lightning and
Sunbird builds for 1.0 beta1 (see Philipp's posts[1][2], we have finally
succeeded (at least on the Lightning front).

Candidate builds for Lightning 1.0 beta1 in 37 languages are available as
of now for:

* Windows[3]
* Linux (32bit)[4]
* Mac OS X[5]

A corresponding build of the Google Calendar Provider is also available
at those locations.

To install these builds in Thunderbird 3, please follow these steps:

1. Download the build for your operating system to a folder on your
hard disk
2. Open Thunderbird, then open its add-on manager via
Tools --> Add-ons (or the corresponding entry in your language)
3. Click on the "Install..." button on the lower left and navigate for
the lightning.xpi file that you just downloaded.
4. Restart Thunderbird after the add-on installation has been
performed. Voila!

What is missing right now are two things:

* Linux builds for the x86-64 platform. We need someone from the
community to provide those to us. Please contact our lead developer
Philipp Kewisch (contact details are available here) if you can
help out.
* Sunbird builds. We still have problems with those but hope tho have
those fixed before Christmas. Watch this space for more
information.

Please tell us what you think of these candidate builds and file bugs in
Bugzilla as you go.

Thanks & Cya
Simon

[1]
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/calendar/2009/12/10_beta_1_progress.html
[2]
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/calendar/2009/12/release_status_lightning_for_t.html
[3] ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/calendar/lightning/releases/1.0b1rc1/win32/
[4]
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/calendar/lightning/releases/1.0b1rc1/linux-i686/
[5] ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/calendar/lightning/releases/1.0b1rc1/mac/

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Andrew DeFaria

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Dec 20, 2009, 10:18:18 AM12/20/09
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On 12/20/2009 08:02 AM, Simon Paquet wrote:
* Linux builds for the x86-64 platform. We need someone from the community to provide those to us. Please contact our lead developerPhilipp Kewisch (contact details are available here) if you can help out.
Sorry I don't see "here". What kind of help is required? Do you simply need somebody with a 64 bit box to build it for you? If so I'd like to help (though I'll be out for the holidays pretty quickly here).
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Simon Paquet

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Dec 20, 2009, 10:33:51 AM12/20/09
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Andrew DeFaria wrote:

>>Linux builds for the x86-64 platform. We need someone from the community to

>>provide those to us. Please contact our lead developer Philipp Kewisch

>>(contact details are available here) if you can help out.
>
>Sorry I don't see "here". What kind of help is required? Do you simply
>need somebody with a 64 bit box to build it for you? If so I'd like to
>help (though I'll be out for the holidays pretty quickly here).

Here is this:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/about.html

Please talk to Philipp about this. Also could you please post here in
plain-text. Many people here (including me) use newsreaders here, which
do not support HTML. So reading your messages is hard for me. And the
harder it is for me the more I'm inclined to just ignore them.

Thanks
Simon

Andrew DeFaria

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Dec 20, 2009, 2:59:45 PM12/20/09
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On 12/20/2009 08:33 AM, Simon Paquet wrote:
Here is this: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/about.html
Contacted.

Please talk to Philipp about this. Also could you please post here in plain-text. Many people here (including me) use newsreaders here, which do not support HTML. So reading your messages is hard for me. And the harder it is for me the more I'm inclined to just ignore them.
Ignoring it is certainly your option however perhaps you should think about updating your newsreader. After all we are approaching 2010 here rapidly!

I hear Thunderbird itself is pretty good. That's what I use. You have heard of the concept of eating your own dog food haven't you? It's a good practice.

Speaking of ignoring, further discussion from people telling me how they think I should post will be ignored.
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Bill Braun

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Dec 21, 2009, 9:17:12 AM12/21/09
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Simon Paquet wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> after all the trouble that we went through to prepare the Lightning and
> Sunbird builds for 1.0 beta1 (see Philipp's posts[1][2], we have finally
> succeeded (at least on the Lightning front).


Can 1.0beta1 be used with TB 2.2.23? Or is it restricted to 3X?

Bill B

Bill Braun

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Dec 21, 2009, 9:22:03 AM12/21/09
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Should have read, TB 2.0.0.23.

Simon Paquet

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Dec 21, 2009, 9:50:59 AM12/21/09
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Bill Braun wrote:

>> after all the trouble that we went through to prepare the Lightning and
>> Sunbird builds for 1.0 beta1 (see Philipp's posts[1][2], we have finally
>> succeeded (at least on the Lightning front).
>
>Can 1.0beta1 be used with TB 2.2.23? Or is it restricted to 3X?

There will be no further releases from the Calendar Project for users of
Thunderbird 2.0.0.X.

Cya
Simon

John Thompson

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Dec 21, 2009, 9:49:28 PM12/21/09
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On 2009-12-21, Bill Braun <m...@privacy.net> wrote:

> Can 1.0beta1 be used with TB 2.2.23? Or is it restricted to 3X?

No; the 1.0beta depends on a newer version of xulrunner and is
incompatible with Thunderbird-2.x.

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Bill Braun

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Dec 22, 2009, 8:13:49 AM12/22/09
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John Thompson wrote:
> On 2009-12-21, Bill Braun <m...@privacy.net> wrote:
>
>> Can 1.0beta1 be used with TB 2.2.23? Or is it restricted to 3X?
>
> No; the 1.0beta depends on a newer version of xulrunner and is
> incompatible with Thunderbird-2.x.

Thank you.

NoOp

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Dec 23, 2009, 5:28:01 PM12/23/09
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On 12/20/2009 07:02 AM, Simon Paquet wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> after all the trouble that we went through to prepare the Lightning and
> Sunbird builds for 1.0 beta1 (see Philipp's posts[1][2], we have finally
> succeeded (at least on the Lightning front).
>
> Candidate builds for Lightning 1.0 beta1 in 37 languages are available as
> of now for:
>
> * Windows[3]
> * Linux (32bit)[4]
> * Mac OS X[5]

Just as a heads-up:

Works w/o issue in SeaMonkey 2.0.1. Does not work in Seamonkey 2.1
(marked as incompatible):
Build identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.3a1pre)
Gecko/20091222 SeaMonkey/2.1a1pre

For SeaMonkey 2.1 I need to use:
<http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/calendar/lightning/nightly/latest-comm-central/linux-xpi/>


Philip Chee

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Dec 25, 2009, 10:06:35 AM12/25/09
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On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:28:01 -0800, NoOp wrote:
> Just as a heads-up:
>
> Works w/o issue in SeaMonkey 2.0.1. Does not work in Seamonkey 2.1
> (marked as incompatible):
> Build identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.3a1pre)
> Gecko/20091222 SeaMonkey/2.1a1pre
>
> For SeaMonkey 2.1 I need to use:
> <http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/calendar/lightning/nightly/latest-comm-central/linux-xpi/>

In other words, Lightning is working as designed/expected.

Phil

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