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diff --git a/libical/README b/libical/README deleted file mode 100644 index e0f7641e1e..0000000000 --- a/libical/README +++ /dev/null @@ -1,96 +0,0 @@ - -LIBICAL -- An implementation of basic iCAL protocols - -The code and datafiles in this distribution are licensed under the -Mozilla Public License. See http://www.mozilla.org/NPL/MPL-1.0.html -for a copy of the license. Alternately, you may use libical under the -terms of the GNU Library General Public License. See -http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/lesser.html for a copy of the LGPL. - -This dual license ensures that the library can be incorporated into -both proprietary code and GPL'd programs, and will benefit from -improvements made by programmers in both realms. I will only accept -changes into my version of the library if they are similarly -dual-licensed. - -The code in this distribution implements the iCal protocols as -described in RFC2445 and RFC2446. The code is in very early stages of -development. - -This code is under active development. If you would like to contribute -to the project, you can contact me, Eric Busboom, at -eric@softwarestudio.org. The project has a webpage at - - http://softwarestudio.org/libical/index.html - -and a mailing list that you can join by sending the following mail: - - ------------ - To: minimalist@softwarestudio.org - Subject: subscribe libical - ------------ - - -Building the library --------------------- - -This distribution is developed on Red Hat Linux 6.0 and usually -compiles on SunOS 5.6 and FreeBSD 2.27. I have reports of success of -previous version on MacOS ( with CodeWarrior ) but I don't know about -any other systems. - -The library is configured with automake. From the root directory, run - - ./configure - -To build all of the Makefiles for your system. If you will be installing the library, you may want to use the --prefix flag to set the directory where the library and header files will be installed. - - ./configure --prefix=/proj/local/ - -If configure runs fine, run "make" to build the library and -"make install" to install it. - -The current version of libical focuses on creating and -manipulating iCal objects. With it, you can parse text representations -of iCal components, add and remove sub-components, properties, -parameters and values, and print the components back out as strings. - - -Notes for Libical Developers -------------------- - -If you don't want to use gcc as the compiler, and you got the sources -from CVS, you should set the CC variable to the path to the compiler -and run "automake --include-deps" to keep automake from using -gcc-specific automatic dependancy tracking. - - > CC=/pkg/SUNWspro/bin/cc; export CC - > automake --include-deps - > ./configure --prefix=/proj/local/ - > make - -You will not need to re-run automake unless you got the sources from CVS. - - -Perl Library ------------- - -There is a perl language binding of this library, LIBICAL. -It is available from http://www.softwarestudio.org/libical - -Parser ------- - -The parser is a test program that will convert a text representation -of an iCal object to the internal representation and print it back out -as text. It is primarily a test tool, but it is also a good -demonstration of how the library works. - -To use it, cat one of the test components into the parser -executable. For example, from the root of the distribution: - - src/test/icalparser < test-data/1.1 - - -Eric Busboom -eric@softwarestudio.org |