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.
Evolution depends on the following non-core gnome libraries: bonobo,
gdk-pixbuf, gnome-print, gnome-vfs, gtkhtml, libglade, and libunicode.
(These are all in GNOME CVS, in the modules by those names.) You also
need a recent copy of ORBit. At the present time, the version in Helix
GNOME is the only released version that is new enough. If you don't
have that, you should check out ORBit from GNOME CVS with the option
"-r orbit-stable-0-5" to get the recent stable branch.
The Palm-synchronization code requires the pilot-utils package. There
is most likely a package for this in your OS of choice (the name may
be "pilot-utils" or "libpisock"). If not, you can get the source at
ftp://ryeham.ee.ryerson.ca/pub/PalmOS/
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).
compose: 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
