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@@ -10,31 +10,45 @@ 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. +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). -Some hints on compiling Evolution can be found in the mailing list -archive: +There is a mailing list archive available at +http://lists.helixcode.com/archives/public/evolution/ -http://lists.helixcode.com/archives/public/evolution/2000-March/000018.html +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 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: 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 -ebook: the Address Book / Calendar backend CORBA server filter: libfilter, a mail filtering library libibex: an indexing library used by the mailer -libical: a library for the iCalendar protocol -libversit: a library for the vCalendar protocol +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) |