cGmail 0.5, call for testers

Posted on January 8, 2008
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cGmail 0.5 seems to be almost ready to be released. Anyway some testing will be appreciated. If you want to test the “will be 0.5″ please download it from here.

What need to be tested?

  1. Gmail for your domain now should work out of the box thanks to Keith Cirkel comment on cGmail 0.4.1 released but becouse I don’t have that kind of gmail account it needs to be tested.
  2. Lot of changes was done on accounts storage system so bugs could be flying all around :)
  3. Most of the code was rewritten from scratch so, to be concise, everything need testing.

Thanks in advance.

Important notes

When you launch this version of cGmail, all your previous accounts will be deleted! cGmail 0.4 series and 0.5 series have incompatible account storage system and I don’t want to waste time to implement an importer. It should not be a problem to reinsert 3 or 4 accounts.

Comments

13 Responses to “cGmail 0.5, call for testers”

  1. Keith Cirkel on January 8th, 2008 12:01 pm

    Just installed and tested, “Gmail for your domain” works excellently, exactly how it should. Job well done :D

    I’ll be sure to comment again if I find any bugs, but so far so good!

  2. ferama on January 8th, 2008 12:09 pm

    Thanks for the quick comment ;)

  3. Pras on January 11th, 2008 4:05 pm

    All cgmail version doesn’t work in Fedora. I tried to install older version from source. No success. Maybe you can repackage to rpm instead of deb to let all other distro users enjoy your work. Nice work.

  4. ferama on January 11th, 2008 4:14 pm

    I’m sorry but I don’t have an rpm based distro and I don’t know how to create rpm packages. If someone would like to contribute an rpm package I would happy to share it with others.

  5. Pras on January 11th, 2008 4:22 pm

    I looked at your Makefile which uses py_compilefiles which isn’t available in Fedora. I tried to used python, python2, python2.5 but failed. Library not found. I can help to package into rpm, if I know fedora equivalent of those command.

  6. Pras on January 11th, 2008 5:06 pm

    alternatively you can try to repackage using alien http://kitenet.net/programs/alien/ to rpm.

  7. ferama on January 11th, 2008 6:01 pm

    Development version of cGmail will no more use that Makefile. If you want to try to package cGmail I strongly recommend to you to download the development version. You can choose between two ways:

    1) Using bazaar version control system.
    bzr co
    http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ferama/cgmail/dev-branch
    (previous command must be typed in one line)

    2) Downloading the archive from here

    Development version no more need py_compilefiles. However, in this version, build dependencies include python-setuptools

    If you need more help don’t esitate to comment here

  8. Pras on January 12th, 2008 4:02 am

    the last version needs python-distutils-extra too, which isn’t available in fedora. >.<, I used python2.5 to compile, failed because some libraries are not found.

  9. Vadim P. on January 12th, 2008 7:48 pm

    When adding a new label, “Type here the label name” should read “Type the label name here”.

    Otherwise, everything works :)

    (the >5 thing is a bit annoying though.. I like to keep emails which I need to get back to later unread. But I guess I’ll have to switch over to the stars system :( )

  10. ferama on January 13th, 2008 12:30 pm

    Thanks. My english is not perfect :)

    For the > 5 issue I must find a method to generate a status icon “on the fly” so I can put any number over it. Added to the TODO list for 0.6. Thanks.

  11. blacksmith on January 30th, 2008 8:21 pm

    Single click on pop-up window open several tabs with gmail in Firefox on Ubuntu 7.10.

  12. Iker on April 18th, 2008 7:12 pm

    I installed 0.5 and works fine except for one thing. I does notify new emails but the status icon is never shown, despite the fact that the “Always show status icon” box is ticked.

  13. Iker on April 19th, 2008 2:10 pm

    Please disregard my previous post. There’s no such bug, it was my fault.

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