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diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 8449b2ac4b..31ad13811b 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2000-06-02 Dan Winship <danw@helixcode.com>
+
+ * README: Update dependencies. Rewrite the GOAD vs OAF thing some
+ more to reflect OAF's new ascendency. Make the fact that you don't
+ need pilot stuff clearer. Add some new directories to the
+ directory layout section.
+
2000-06-02 Christopher James Lahey <clahey@helixcode.com>
* widgets/misc/e-clipped-label.c: Free the finish data.
diff --git a/README b/README
index f8894167f4..fccbe23f8b 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -3,9 +3,8 @@ 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.
+Note that Evolution is still beta. This means it may delete all of
+your mail if you give it the chance.
If you are interested in hacking on Evolution, you should subscribe to
the Evolution mailing list. Send mail to
@@ -63,10 +62,22 @@ install, and whether to use GOAD or OAF.
GNOME_PATH=/usr/local
+ (You need to do this both during compiling AND when you run
+ evolution.)
+
+
+ - GOAD is the "old" (GNOME 1.x series) object activation system. OAF
+ is the new (unreleased, GNOME 2.x series) system.
+
+ As of bonobo 0.14, OAF is the default activation system for Bonobo.
+ If you want to use OAF, you will need to install the oaf package
+ before building Bonobo. If you want to save a little time and stick
+ with GOAD, you should pass the flag "--enable-oaf=no" to bonobo's
+ configure script.
+
+ Note that Nautilus requires OAF, so if you have built or are
+ planning to build Nautilus as well, you should use OAF.
- - 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
@@ -86,31 +97,40 @@ ftp.gnome.org. The (*)ed packages are available in Helix GNOME.
- gdk-pixbuf - 0.7.0 or later (*)
- - ORBit - 0.5.1 (*)
+ - ORBit - 0.5.1 (*) or later from the orbit-stable-0-5 branch in CVS.
+
+ - oaf - 0.3, assuming that you're building with OAF rather than GOAD
+ (see above). Note that if you build the current CVS version of OAF
+ rather than the 0.3 release, you will need a newer version of ORBit
+ than 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).
+ June 2, bonobo 0.15 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)
+ better. Note that gnome-vfs from CVS requires OAF.)
- - libunicode = 0.4 or later, available
- from http://www.pango.org/download.shtml
+ - libunicode - 0.4 or later, available from
+ http://www.pango.org/download.shtml
- - gtkhtml - 0.2 or later
+ - gtkhtml - 0.4 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 (*)
+At some point in the future, Evolution will have Pilot sync support,
+which will depend on the following libraries. (At the moment, it will
+check to see whether or not you have them, but it will not actually do
+anything with them.)
+
+ - pilot-link (*)
+
+ - gnome-pilot (*)
@@ -118,19 +138,17 @@ ftp.gnome.org. The (*)ed packages are available in Helix GNOME.
The layout of the source tree is:
addressbook: the Address Book UI
+art: graphics used by evolution
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
+default_user: initial Evolution config files for new users
devel-docs: entirely inadequate documentation
-doc: more inadequate documentation, and some nice white
- papers
+doc: more adequate documentation
e-util: utility code used by various parts of Evolution
filter: libfilter, a mail filtering library
libibex: an indexing library used by the mailer
@@ -141,5 +159,10 @@ mail: the mail display UI
shell: the Evolution shell (the main program that launches
the other components)
tests: some test programs
+tools: utilities, notably "killev", a script to kill of all
+ of the Evolution components
widgets: widgets used by Evolution, including the shortcut bar,
ETable, and EText
+wombat: Has source code that will load in the addressbook
+ and calendar backend, and will form the server
+ process we'll be using