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    <title>&Evolution; API Reference</title>

    <partintro>
      <para>
    This part presents the class and function reference for the
    different libraries and interfaces that &Evolution; provides.
    Classes are described together with their methods; individual
    functions are grouped by functional group.
      </para>

      <para>
    &Evolution; provides two kinds of interfaces, public and
    private.  The public interfaces are those designed to be used
    from third-party applications or components; if you wanted to
    write an application that uses &Evolution;'s data repositories
    to display data in a particular way, you would use the public
    interfaces.  The private interfaces are those used inside
    &Evolution; itself; these are generally not interesting unless
    you intend to make modifications to the &Evolution; code base.
      </para>

      <para>
    While the public and private interfaces are described in
    separate reference sections, we have decided to put them
    together in the same book, this guide, because we want to
    encourage you to regard &Evolution; as something more than a
    black box that stores and dispatches personal information.  We
    want you to make modifications to the &Evolution; core if
    these would allow you to present or store your data in better
    ways.  &Evolution; is free software; we want you to learn from
    its design and implementation details so that you can make it
    even better for the whole world to use.
      </para>
    </partintro>

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