[Freeassociation-devel] Default value for ical_errors_are_fatal

[Allen Winter]

On Friday 02 January 2009 3:58:53 am Chenthill wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-01-02 at 14:16 +0530, Debarshi Ray wrote:
> > > Ping.. do we have a conclusion yet?
> > >
> > > To summarise the discussion so far:
> > > + KDE code works well anyway, the patch does not change anything
> > > + Evolution code (and e-d-s, evolution-exchange, evolution-mapi) have
> > > problems with the current code - and we __will__ make changes to our
> > > code at runtime to keep it from crashing.
> >
> > Not only Evolution, but Sunbird is also affected. Bongo seems to have
> > made the decision to change the defaults in their forked code some
> > time ago. Here is the bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/478331
> >
> > As far as Fedora's KDE team is concerned, Rex Dieter agreed to our
> > proposal to change the default values in the configure script.
>
> Cool, I thought evolution was only a single module which required this
> change and so did not want to make the change in libical just for us.
> With other projects also wanting the change, its better to be in
> libical.
>
> Can this change be committed in libical immediately  and then suman can
> commit the changes made in evolution with upstream libical..
>
Since the KDE PIM apps seem to be pretty much working with the current state
I do not object to the configure option, from the KDE point-of-view.

But for the Evolution apps.. I wonder.  Aren't you concerned that some distros
will configure one way and other distros will configure another?  Leading to
bug reports like "My Sunbird calendar works on Redhat but crashes on Arch".

So eventually, all distros will re-configure with the "don't crash option".
Which leads to: make the "don't crash option" the default configuration.
Which leads to: don't allow a configuration -> hard-code "don't crash" in the libical code