Add info on IRC channel, dependency libraries, protocol docs. Fix a

few bugs.

svn path=/trunk/; revision=2170

1 files changed, 22 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/README b/README
index dd6bc42b89..25a77de784 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -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)