Lightning-3.6b3 has been released and it does work with Seamonkey-2.31.

Note: If you used the work-around I posted above to get 3.6b1 or 3.6b2 working, you should reset the configuration setting calendar.icaljs to the default, then restart Seamonkey. It will work without this, but I think you want to be using the library implementation vs the alternate JS one.

Hmmm, I'm following -current closely, and never experienced problems with thunderbird, lightning and german language pack. Except, the miserable manual downloading of the language pack. Maybe, if I remember correctly, the language pack was missing for about one week this year.

Wonder where the problems arise from. Must be somehow setup-specific (?).

Good luck
Franz

Thanks again, 3.6b3 seems to work fine with Seamonkey-2.31, here!

gargamel

Thanks. I don't think that the issues are related to specific setups. They occur, when a new Seamonkey/Thunderbird release comes out, and they disappear when Lightning catches up with a compatible version. I guess, as you follow -current "loosely", you were just lucky so far, and updated Seamonkey/Thunderbird only when a compatible Lightning version was already available. Therefore you never noticed any problems, as you just skipped the periods of time, when no compatible version of Lightning was available. But I am just guessing, of course.

gargamel

Today Seamonkey 2.33.1 arrived for Slackware. As usual, an update of Lightning is required, if you use this extension. For the most part Lightning 3.8b2 seems to be compatible with Seamonkey 2.33.1. However, if your locale is non-US English, you may see error messages like this:

The reason seems to be that some variable names have changed, but not consistently in the program and in the translations. Instead of dayInterval... there is daysInterval... in the relevant file calendar-de.properties (replace de, which denotes a German local, with the code for your language, here).
Fortunately, the fix is simple: Just remove the s, putting the variable back to its singular form. To do so, extract the file

locale/<your language code>/calendar/calendar.properties

from the JAR file

~/.mozilla/seamonkey/<yourseamonkeyprofileID>.default/extensions/{UUID of Lightning extension}/chrome/calendar-<language code>.jar

and replace all occurrences of the plural form daysInterval... with the singular form dayInterval. Then add the modified file back to its original place (in the JAR file).

Note, that future versions are probably going to use the plural form consistently.

I borrowed the information above from here (German, but there are English resources available, too, on the web).

Though not a big deal, as it seems. However, I am more and more losing faith in the Seamonkey and Lightning developers. Is it really so hard to align translations with stable releases? I don't get it, why I can download Lightning for Seamonkey 2.35, which hasn't even been announced, while there is no consistently localised version for the most current stable release. Will they ever make serious attempts to get this together? :(

gargamel