Porting tinymail to new platforms

Past ports

In the upstream repository

• Maemo: Nokia 770 and Nokia N880 (--with-platform=maemo)
• OLPC: Uses a .ini file as configuration store (--with-platform=olpc)
• GPE (Angstrom packages by Koen Kooi are available on openembedded) (--with-platform=gpe)
• Any GNOME desktop (--with-platform=gnome)

Not in the upstream repository yet

• GPE-Phone (A patch for tinymail is included with GPE-Phone's E-mail application)

Future porting

Architectures

• SymbianOS (the POSIX layer)
• WinCE (pthread-win32 is available, waiting for iconv and after that glib)
  • Includes an implementation of certain typical ui components (like a message view, a folder view, a summary view)
  • Or a full portage of the Gtk+ toolkit to WinCE (on Win32 Gtk+ is already available)
  • Don't forget .NET language bindings so that Compact Framework .NET developers can leverage the framework
• Hiker, most important piece will be a account store implementation that uses this API.

UI toolkits

• Qt & Qtopia (Waiting for GMainLoop integration)
• Win32
• Symbian

Porting and preparing the build environment

• Preparing the camel-lite build environment for your new platform?
• Preparing the toplevel build environment for your new platform?

Porting and/or adjusting a platform-specific library

• Implementing a platform factory type
• Implementing a device type
• Implementing an account store type
• Implementing a message view type

Deploying and testing the demo user interface

All these are planned but unfinished subjects

• Deployment tools
• Testing tools
• Debugging tools