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diff --git a/README b/README deleted file mode 100644 index 62efb3c5ad..0000000000 --- a/README +++ /dev/null @@ -1,248 +0,0 @@ -Evolution is the integrated mail, calendar and address book -distributed suite from Ximian, Inc. - -See http://www.ximian.com/apps/evolution.php3 for more information. - -Note that Evolution is still beta. This means it may delete all of -your mail if you give it the chance. - -If you are using Evolution, you should subscribe to the Evolution -mailing list. If you are interested in hacking on it, you should -subscribe to the Evolution Hackers mailing list. Send mail to -"evolution-request@ximian.com" or -"evolution-hackers-request@ximian.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 are mailing list archives available at -http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/evolution/ and -http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/evolution-hackers/ - -There is also an #evolution IRC channel on irc.gnome.org. - - -IF IT DOESN'T WORK ------------------- - -Did you read the "How to build" section below? - -If the configure script complains that you don't have a library that -you know you have installed, it usually means either that you've -installed things into multiple prefixes (see the bits on GNOME_PATH -below) or (if you're on Linux) that you installed the "foo" package -but forgot the "foo-devel" package. - - -HOW TO BUILD EVOLUTION ----------------------- - - *** READ THIS BEFORE YOU START BUILDING ANYTHING! *** - -Evolution depends on a large number of unreleased and rapidly-changing -libraries. Some of these libraries in turn depend on other unreleased -and rapidly-changing libraries. - -Building Evolution is HARD, and it's going to stay hard until all of -the libraries it depends on stabilize, and there's nothing we can do -to make it any easier until then. - - -General Principles ------------------- - -First you have to decide whether you want to install Evolution (and -its dependencies) into the same prefix as the rest of your GNOME -install, or into a new prefix. Installing everything into the same -prefix as the rest of your GNOME install will make it much easier to -build and run programs, and easier to switch between using packages -and building it yourself, but it may also make it harder to uninstall -later. - -If you want to install into the same prefix as the rest of GNOME, -type: - - gnome-config --prefix - gnome-config --sysconfdir - -and remember the answers, and pass them to "configure" or "autogen.sh" -when building the other packages you need. Eg: - - ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc - - -If you build in another prefix instead, you will need to set the -GNOME_PATH environment variable (and ACLOCAL_FLAGS as well if building -from CVS) to include the prefix you install into. Eg: - - export GNOME_PATH=/usr/local - export ACLOCAL_FLAGS="-I /usr/local/share/aclocal" - -(Assuming your shell is bash, and you installed into /usr/local.) You -need to set GNOME_PATH both during compiling AND when you run -evolution. Remember also that if you're installing into an odd prefix -such as /evolution, that you also need to make sure to put -${prefix}/bin in your PATH and ${prefix}/lib in your LD_LIBRARY_PATH. - - -Dependencies ------------- - -All of these libraries are available in GNOME CVS, under the given -names. Most (but not all) of them are also available as tarballs on -ftp.gnome.org. The (*)ed packages are available in Ximian GNOME -(http://www.ximian.com/desktop/) Other packages may be available from -the Ximian GNOME evolution preview mirror. - -If installing from packages, remember that you need both the runtime -and -devel packages for each library. - - - xml-i18n-tools - lates from xml-i18n-tools-stable-1-x branch in - GNOME CVS (0.8.2 is too old) - - - gnome-xml - 1.8.10 or later in the 1.0 series, but not from the 2.0 - series (If you get this from GNOME CVS, use the tag "LIB_XML_1_BRANCH".) - (*) - - - gnome-print - 0.25 or later (*) - - - gdk-pixbuf - 0.9.0 or later (*) - - - ORBit - 0.5.8 or later (*) (If you get this from GNOME CVS, use the - tag "orbit-stable-0-5".) - - - oaf - 0.6.2 or later (If you get this from GNOME CVS, use the tag - "oaf-stable-0-6") - - *** If you are using oaf from CVS, you should use the flag - *** "--disable-more-warnings" when configure, or it may fail to - *** build. - - - gconf - 0.6 or later. - - - gnome-vfs - 1.0.0 or later (If you get this from GNOME CVS, use - the tag "gnome-vfs-1-0") - - *** If you are using gnome-vfs from CVS, you should use the flag - *** "--disable-more-warnings" when configuring, or it may fail to - *** build. - - - libglade - 0.14 or later - - - bonobo - 1.0.3 or later - - *** Note that bonobo must be installed with the same --prefix as - *** either gnome-libs or evolution for the Makefiles to work - *** properly. - - - gal (GNOME Application Library) - 0.7.99.3 or later - - - gtkhtml - later than 0.9.3 - - - Berkeley's libdb - 3.1.17 - - db3 is available from www.sleepycat.com. Make sure to get 3.1.17, - it isn't the newest version. - - -Compiling Berkeley DB ---------------------- - -If you don't have 3.1.17 installed on your system or Evolution doesn't -detect it for some reason, here is a way to get Evolution to link to -it without messing up your system installation. - - * Get the Sleepycat tarball from: - - http://www.sleepycat.com/update/3.1.17/db-3.1.17.tar.gz - - * Install the content somewhere _other_ than the evolution source tree. - e.g: NOT evolution/db-3.1.17 - - * Compile according to instructions, but installing into some custom - prefix, e.g: - - ../dist/configure --prefix=/home/user/berkeleydb-3.1.17 - - * Autogen Evolution specifying that it has to look for the DB - library there, eg.: - - ./autogen.sh --prefix=/opt/gnome - --with-db3-includes=/home/user/berkeleydb-3.1.17/include - --with-db3-libs=/home/user/berkeleydb-3.1.17/lib - - -Compiling Palm Pilot support ----------------------------- - -If you want support for PalmPilot syncing (currently experimental so -please back up your pilot) you will also need to do the following: - -1) pilot-link -cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.gnu-designs.com:/cvs/pilot-link login -The password is just <ENTER>. -cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.gnu-designs.com:/cvs/pilot-link co pilot-link -./configure --prefix=<pilot-link-prefix> --with-perl=no --with-java=no ---with-tcl=no --with-python=no -make -make install - -2) gnome-pilot -cvs -z3 co gnome-pilot -./autogen.sh --prefix=<gnome-pilot-prefix> --with-pisock=<pilot-link-prefix> -make -make install - -3) evolution -in your evo source dir do ./autogen.sh --prefix=<evo-prefix> ---with-pisock=<pilot-link-prefix> --enable-pilot-conduits=yes -make -make install - - -If you want support SSL (and someday S/MIME), you will also need libnspr4 and -libnss3 which can be found at http://www.mozilla.org. - -Once you have libnspr4 and libnss3 (and their respective includes) installed, -in your evolution source dir do: -./autogen.sh --prefix=<evo-prefix> --with-nspr-includes=<nspr-includes-prefix> ---with-nspr-libs=<nspr-libs-prefix> --with-nss-includes=<nss-includes-prefix> ---with-nss-libs=<nss-libs-prefix> - -You'll need to `cp ~/.mozilla/default/*.db ~/evolution` on you've -installed Evolution in order to get a functional SSL-enabled -Evolution. - - -SOURCE TREE LAYOUT ------------------- - -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). -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 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 -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 -tools: utilities, notably "killev", a script to kill of all - of the Evolution components -widgets: widgets used by Evolution, including the shortcut bar -wombat: Has source code that will load in the addressbook - and calendar backend, and will form the server - process we'll be using |