Recently Siva gave an update on Spicebird 0.7 - A few bugs were fixed after his update, a few more are assigned and already have attachments on them to be reviewed. The following gives a summary of the latest state
- 40 bugs blocking Spicebird Beta 0.7
- 16 assigned bugs
- Patches pending review would fix about 8 bugs
Apart from the pending patches, Sunil working on importing from Thunderbird/Lightning and Siva on importing mail and addressbooks from Microsoft Outlook did a wonderful job and are currently testing their work.
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Forgive me if I missed this announcement one way or another, but will there be a Mac release in 0.7?
Jonathan, currently none of the developers have access to a Mac and it there would be no Mac build for 0.7
The code should be mostly compatible with Mac too, so we would be glad of new developers with Macs come-in to help us!
Prasad, If I were a Mac developer, I would gladly help. As it is though, all I can do is spread the word some and see if any are interested. I’ll ask some of my friends and see if I can’t find someone who knows someone.
I’m sorry if I missed this in one of the notes, I also tried to request this on bugzilla, but I failed to do so. So here’s the question:
Will the address book in spicebird 0.7 have the feature to enter a person’s birthday whereupon a calendar entry is automatically created?That’d be really helpful!
Again, thank you guys so much for all the effort you put into it, I’m sure this is gonna be a great product!
@ John
There is an extension for TB that provides this functionality:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/5337
If synovel would give us some hints on how to adapt TB extensions to SB, surely someone would take care of this.
@Thomas
Thanks for the link. The addon looks interesting.
Porting addons to Spicebird mostly involves changing the user-interface hooks and the identifiers in the XUL overlays.
I will try to come-up with detailed tutorial on that soon.
@ Thomas: Thank you for your link to this extension.
Still, I feel like this is just a compromise due to missing functionality in the main program. Plus, not only do you need the extension “Thunderbird Birthday”, but also “moreFunctionsForAddressbook”, in order to be able to enter people’s birthdays into the addressbook in the first place.
Besides, isn’t there the risk of incompatibilities and data loss everytime either the program or one of the two extensions get updated?
I mean, I don’t know how much effort it would take to add this functionality without using extensions?
This is great news. I’ve recently started using Spicebird and find it great. I’m glad to hear that a new version is just around the corner.
I also look forward to that tutorial on porting addons. Wouldn’t it be better, however, if the app automatically made those required changes, so that addons wouldn’t need to be ported? I’m not sure if that’s possible, but I would think it would be better if Spicebird looked at the addon and if it was a thunderbird addon it would automatically adjust the UI hooks and identifiers to be compatible with Spicebird.
Not sure if that’s possible, but just a suggestion.
I managed to use thunderbird extensions (webmail with hotmail) in Spicebird. You have to open them as a compressed file, and edit the file “install.rdf” (associate .rdf with your text editor). There you will see almost at the end Change the Mozilla Thunderbird entry for this one:
{ee53ece0-255c-4cc6-8a7e-81a8b6e5ba2c}
0.4
0.7
My last entry doesnt display correctly. Just change the next values under em:targetApplication in the file install.rdf
Mozilla Thunderbird to Thunderbird
em:id put this ee53ece0-255c-4cc6-8a7e-81a8b6e5ba2c
em:minVersion 0.4
em:maxVersion 0.7