Editing GNOME Evolution (section)

===Defunct Mac OS X and Windows ports===
In the past,{{when|date=December 2024}} Evolution was [[porting|ported]] to [[Apple Mac OS X]] and [[Microsoft Windows]], but these ports are no longer developed.{{when|date=December 2024}}

In 2006, Novell released an installer for Evolution 2.6 on Mac OS X.<ref name=evo-mac /> In January 2005, Novell's [[Nat Friedman]] announced in his blog<ref name=friedman /> that the company had hired Tor Lillqvist, the programmer who ported [[GIMP]] to Microsoft Windows, to do the same with Evolution.  Prior to this announcement, several projects with the same goal had been started but none of them reached alpha status. In 2008 DIP Consultants released a Windows installer for Evolution 2.28.1-1 for [[Microsoft Windows XP]] and newer.<ref name=dip /> Currently it is only available for download from the project's page on SourceForge.<ref name=evo-sf />

A slightly more recent (2010/2011) experimental installer for Evolution 3.0.2 is provided by [[openSUSE]].<ref name = striba /><ref name= evo-windows-packages /> Users have faced difficulties getting this version working.<ref name=gnome-bugzilla />