LIBICAL -- An implementation of basic iCAL protocols

The code and datafiles in this distribution are licensed under the
Mozilla Public License. See http://www.mozilla.org/NPL/MPL-1.0.html
for a copy of the license. Alternately, you may use libical under the
terms of the GNU Library General Public License. See
http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/lesser.html for a copy of the LGPL.

This dual license ensures that the library can be incorporated into
both proprietary code and GPL'd programs, and will benefit from
improvements made by programmers in both realms. I will only accept
changes into my version of the library if they are similarly
dual-licensed.

The code in this distribution implements the iCal protocols as
described in RFC2445 and RFC2446. The code is in very early stages of
development.

This code is under active development. If you would like to contribute
to the project, you can contact me, Eric Busboom, at
eric@softwarestudio.org. The project has a webpage at

	http://softwarestudio.org/libical/index.html 

and a mailing list that you can join by sending the following mail:

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Building the library
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This distribution is developed on Red Hat Linux 6.0 and usually
compiles on SunOS 5.6 and FreeBSD 2.27. I have reports of success of
previous version on MacOS ( with CodeWarrior ) but I don't know about
any other systems.

The library is configured with automake. From the root directory, run 

	./configure

To build all of the Makefiles for your system. If you will be installing the library, you may want to use the --prefix flag to set the directory where the library and header files will be installed. 

	./configure --prefix=/proj/local/

If configure runs fine, run "make" to build the library and 
"make install" to install it.

The current version of libical focuses on creating and
manipulating iCal objects. With it, you can parse text representations
of iCal components, add and remove sub-components, properties,
parameters and values, and print the components back out as strings. 

Perl Library
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There is a perl language binding of this library, LIBICAL. It is  available from CPAN. or from http://www.softwarestudio.org/libical

Parser
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The parser is a test program that will convert a text representation
of an iCal object to the internal representation and print it back out
as text. It is primarily a test tool, but it is also a good
demonstration of how the library works. 

To use it, cat one of the test components into the parser
executable. For example, from the root of the distribution:

	src/test/icalparser < test-data/1.1  


Eric Busboom
eric@softwarestudio.org