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diff --git a/README b/README deleted file mode 100644 index f8894167f4..0000000000 --- a/README +++ /dev/null @@ -1,145 +0,0 @@ -Evolution is the integrated mail, calendar and address book -distributed suite from Helix Code, Inc. - -See http://www.helixcode.com/apps/evolution.php3 for more information. - -Note that Evolution is still pre-alpha. This means even if you manage -to compile and run it, you might not be able to figure out how to tell -it to accidentally delete all of your mail. - -If you are interested in hacking on Evolution, you should subscribe to -the Evolution mailing list. Send mail to -"evolution-request@helixcode.com" with the word "subscribe" in the -body of the message. If you are planning to work on any part of -Evolution, please send mail to the mailing list first, to avoid -duplicated effort (and to make sure that you aren't basing your work -on interfaces that are expected to change). - -There is a mailing list archive available at -http://lists.helixcode.com/archives/public/evolution/ - -There is also an #evolution IRC channel on irc.gnome.org. - - -HOW TO BUILD EVOLUTION ----------------------- - - *** READ THIS BEFORE YOU START BUILDING ANYTHING! *** - -Evolution depends on a large number of unreleased and rapidly-changing -libraries. Some of these libraries in turn depend on other unreleased -and rapidly-changing libraries. - -Building Evolution is HARD, and it's going to stay hard until all of -the libraries it depends on stabilize, and there's nothing we can do -to make it any easier until then. - - -General Principles ------------------- - -There are two things you have to decide earlier on: whether or not to -install Evolution in the same prefix as the rest of your GNOME -install, and whether to use GOAD or OAF. - - - Installing everything into the same prefix as the rest of your - GNOME install will it much easier to run programs, but may make it - harder to uninstall later. - - If you want to install into the same prefix as the rest of GNOME, - type: - - gnome-config --prefix - gnome-config --sysconfdir - - and remember the answers, and pass them to "configure" and - "autogen" when building the other packages you need. Eg: - - ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc - - - If you do not do this, you will need to set GNOME_PATH to include - the prefix you install into. Eg: - - GNOME_PATH=/usr/local - - - - There is absolutely no reason to build using OAF unless you are - also building Nautilus, in which case you should already have it - installed. - - -Dependencies ------------- - -All of these libraries are available in GNOME CVS, under the given -names. Most (but not all) of them are also available as tarballs on -ftp.gnome.org. The (*)ed packages are available in Helix GNOME. -(http://www.helixcode.com/desktop/) - - - gnome-xml - currently, only 1.8.7 works. Earlier versions have a - bug in code that Evolution needs, and the 2.0 branch is not source - or binary compatible. If you get this from GNOME CVS, use the tag - "LIB_XML_1_X". (*) - - - gnome-print (whatever version is currently needed by gtkhtml) (*) - - - gdk-pixbuf - 0.7.0 or later (*) - - - ORBit - 0.5.1 (*) - - - bonobo - Evolution always tracks the latest CVS versions of bonobo. - Released versions will virtually always be too old (although as of - May 10, bonobo 0.11 is recent enough). - - *** Note that bonobo must be installed with the same --prefix as - *** either gnome-libs or evolution for the Makefiles to work - *** properly. - - - gnome-vfs (released versions are OK currently, but CVS versions are - better) - - - libunicode = 0.4 or later, available - from http://www.pango.org/download.shtml - - - gtkhtml - 0.2 or later - - - libglade (*) - - - pilot-link - only required if you want Pilot support. The pilot - support does not currently exist, so this is somewhat hypothetical. - (*) - - - gnome-pilot - see pilot-link (*) - - - - -The layout of the source tree is: - -addressbook: the Address Book UI -calendar: the Calendar UI -camel: libcamel, a messaging library used by the mailer. - Camel is inspired by Sun's JavaMail - (http://java.sun.com/products/javamail/) and the - IMAPv4 spec (RFC 2060). -wombat: Has source code that will load in the addressbook - and calendar backend, and will form the server - process we'll be using -composer: the message composer UI -data: the .desktop file for Evolution -devel-docs: entirely inadequate documentation -doc: more inadequate documentation, and some nice white - papers -e-util: utility code used by various parts of Evolution -filter: libfilter, a mail filtering library -libibex: an indexing library used by the mailer -libical: a library for the iCalendar format (RFC 2445-2446) -libversit: a library for the vCard (RFC 2425-2426) and vCalendar - (http://www.imc.org/pdi/vcal-10.txt) formats -mail: the mail display UI -shell: the Evolution shell (the main program that launches - the other components) -tests: some test programs -widgets: widgets used by Evolution, including the shortcut bar, - ETable, and EText |