Spicebird Portable 0.4 Development Test 1

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Submitted by John T. Haller on January 16, 2008 - 5:54pm

I've posted a development test release of Spicebird for testers. It's basically an email, rss, PIM and IM application suite based on Thunderbird, Sunbird and xmpp4moz. It's a little early in its development cycle (pre 1.0 release) but there's been some interest in it, so I got permission to do a version.

Download Spicebird Portable 0.4 Development Test 1 (8.7MB)

Please share opinions and thoughts on this new app.

Thanks,
John

Spicebird is a trademark of Synovel and is used with permission.


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Sweet

Thanks for being quick on this. Eager to try it out.

Edit: Alright, seems to be working just fine. Thanks for packaging this.

which version of thunderbird

which version of thunderbird does this use?

Please search before posting. ~Thanks

It's Not

It's not Thunderbird. It's 'based on' Thunderbird. I think it's the 3.x branch of it.

Live with purpose.

yea that is what i

yea that is what i meant...thank you for your quick reply

Please search before posting. ~Thanks

Sorta off-topic...

This is sorta off in left field and off topic, but a few of us mentioned Feature Creep, Featuritis, Scope Creep, etc. over in another thread.

You can see a very good example of this (or people/users trying cause this issue) on the Spicebird "Roadmap" page. Read the developers goals and then scroll down to see everyone pile on with the kitchen sink.

http://www.spicebird.com/en-US/spicebird/roadmap

When I read all those comments I thought back to our little fireside Feature Creep chat. ;)

(I wish I knew the Drupal trick to link to specific comments to make my links better...anyone willing to give me the secret decoder ring?)

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Help control the rugrat population -- have yourself spayed or neutered!

Comment Title

Just right-click on the comment title and copy the link. It'll have an anchor attached.

Live with purpose.

Does anyone

know how to link to a specific page in a multi-page thread???
I have seen it once but unfortunately I cant search for it :(

"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate

I believe

Adding

?page=1 is page two
?page=2 is page three

Etc.

Thanks

Ill try asap.

"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate

And

For comments, just add #comment-[comment number] to the end of a page link (e.g. 10000?page=1#comment-999999).

"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." - Rick Cook

schemes

?page=1 is page two
?page=2 is page three

I just love intuitive naming schemes.

MC

PHP

PHP starts its indexes at 0, like pretty much everything (MySQL too). So yeah, take that.

Warum, warum, ist die Banane krumm?

click on the title of the

click on the title of the specific comment u want, then that comment's URL will display in the address bar....then just use that.

The developer formerly known as ZGitRDun8705

Just remember,

Just remember,

I have the copyright on "intra node" linking :-p

Tim

"The wheels of John grind Slowly, But they grind Exceedingly Small" ;-)

Nope! Remember?

Nope! Remember?

Good gracious! There goes a kangaroo. I must have a practice with me boomerang- Now then, slowly back
If you throw that thing at me, I'll jump right on your head.
Innit marvellous? Got a land full of kangaroos and I had to pick that one.

I'm gonna sue !!!

I'm gonna sue :-P

Let'em do it once and they walk all over you ;-)

"The wheels of John grind Slowly, But they grind Exceedingly Small" ;-)

.

Excuse my ignorance chaps, but I own you. :P

Warum, warum, ist die Banane krumm?

Thanx guys!

I guess my mouse never wandered over a post title and/or I never noticed it was a link.

Back to the Spicebird talk! :)

Cancer Survivors -- Remember the fight, celebrate the victory!
Help control the rugrat population -- have yourself spayed or neutered!

Very Nice...

It seems very nice and effective, I think I will give the regular Spicebird a go on Linux...

*In a high singing voice* All the little creatures of the forest!

and stuff...

...interesting concept !

It has an interesting concept !

I think I will keep focus on the further development of Spicebird !

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Unfair. You stole it. I'm suing. *cries* :(

Warum, warum, ist die Banane krumm?

Lmao

I was definitely the one that said I'd do it.

*runs and grabs Puggle*

looks good and I love this

looks good and I love this how it works.. cant wait to see the full V of it..

Kewl Beans!

:D Me likie! :D

So far no issues to report that are related to the portable parts, that is. (I have a question in on SF.net about an issue with "Master Password".)

Keep up the good work, y'all. :)

/s/ BTW I'm a Quality Assurance Analyst by trade... ;)

Bug: Folder Left in Application Data

Just a small thing I caught while toying with this. As soon as it's run, Spicebird Portable creates Spicebird\Crash Reports\* under Application Data. They plan to have to next release out around well, last month, so hopefully soon. Thought I'd mention that before it's updated. :)

Definitely

I'm definitely interested in this. I'd love to see where it goes. Like you said John, it's still a little early in the dev cycle...but I think this would be awesome. I love T-bird and Pidgin, but if I could go to one app, I would consider it.

Now all i need is an RSS for either Spicebird or this thread...

Haha!! YAY for FF3. It

Haha!! YAY for FF3. It extracted the RSS from Spicebird for me :)

Spicebird 0.7 Due Out Tomorrow

I know you're busy with a lot of stuff, and I'm sure you've signed up to be notified of the next release, but I just wanted to let you know that Spicebird 0.7 is due out tomorrow. The last comment I saw looked like Spicebird was planned to be out at the end of July, but I don't know if that was from a developer. Anywho, I've been keeping a close eye on this project, and tried a nightly around a month ago. This will be a very great release, as they've updated to use Pidgin's libpurple from their 2.5 release (msn protocol updated, etc). The new version support iGoogle applets (brilliant, IMHO), and I believe their will be an addon repository coming as well. So, look forward to that, I know I will!

Edit: When you do get a chance to update, don't forget this! :)

Edit 2: Also, seeing as 1.0 is mainly commercially-targeted features (CMS integration, MS Exchange connector), I think going live with 0.7 if it's stable would be great.