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 you have built Evolution and it doesn't work, or you can't get it or one of its dependencies to compile, try running the "verify-evolution-install.sh" script in the tools/ subdirectory. It may be able to figure out what went wrong. 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. - 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_X".) (*) - gnome-print - 0.20 or later (*) - gdk-pixbuf - 0.8.0 or later (*) - ORBit - 0.5.5 or later (*) (If you get this from GNOME CVS, use the tag "orbit-stable-0-5".) - oaf - 0.6.0 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. - gnome-vfs - 0.3 or later *** If you are using gnome-vfs from CVS, you should use the flag *** "--disable-more-warnings" when configuring, or it may fail to *** build. - bonobo - 0.31 or later *** Note that bonobo must be installed with the same --prefix as *** either gnome-libs or evolution for the Makefiles to work *** properly. - libunicode - 0.4 or later, available from http://www.pango.org/download.shtml - gconf - 0.6 or later - gal (GNOME Application Library) - 0.4 or later - gtkhtml - 0.8 or later - libglade (*) 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/openpalm login The password is just . cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.gnu-designs.com:/cvs/openpalm co pilot-link ./configure --prefix= --with-perl=no --with-java=no --with-tcl=no --with-python=no make make install 2) gnome-pilot cvs -z3 co gnome-pilot ./configure --prefix= --with-pisock= make make install 3) evolution in your evo source dir do ./autogen.sh --prefix= --with-pisock= --enable-pilot-conduits=yes make make install 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). 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 2010-10-17 18:20:39 +0800'>2010-10-171-0/+2033 * Add zh_CN to DOC_LINGUASAron Xu2010-07-271-1/+1 * Add Simplified Chinese help translation.Teliute2010-07-271-0/+3032 * Update Czech help translation by Lucas LommerPetr Kovar2010-03-291-18/+17 * Updated Greek translationΜάριος Ζηντίλης2010-03-251-466/+423 * Updated Spanish translationJorge González2010-03-231-12/+9 * Add screenshotsMarek Černocký2010-03-094-0/+0 * Update Ukrainian translationMaxim V. Dziumanenko2010-01-101-640/+792 * Updated Czech help translation by Lucas LommerPetr Kovar2009-09-221-395/+405 * Updated Greek help translation.Kostas Papadimas2009-09-131-555/+1965 * Updated Finnish translationTommi Vainikainen2009-09-131-3/+5 * Updated French manual translationClaude Paroz2009-09-081-393/+393 * Updated Spanish translationJorge González2009-08-261-16/+5 * Updated German doc translationMario Blättermann2009-08-231-443/+410 * epiphany.xml: fix typoXan Lopez2009-08-231-1/+1 * Updated Spanish translationJorge González2009-08-221-397/+411 * Updated Finnish translation of the manualTommi Vainikainen2009-08-221-517/+934 * Fixes to manual. Closes #591770.Tommi Vainikainen2009-08-221-7/+8 * Updated Finnish translationTommi Vainikainen2009-08-155-1356/+1933 * Updated German translationMario Blättermann2009-07-271-375/+410 * Changed mail addresses in German doc translationMario Blättermann2009-06-011-752/+1323 * Fixed Greek translation for documentation.Simos Xenitellis2009-05-271-1/+1 * Fixed Greek translation for documentation.Simos Xenitellis2009-05-271-1/+1 * updated Greek documentation translationΓιάννης Κατσαμπίρης2009-05-171-534/+635 * Updated Greek translation by Marios ZindilisSimos Xenitellis2009-04-041-1/+1 * Updated French translation.Claude Paroz2009-03-161-541/+566 * Updated Czech translation of manual by Lucas Lommer.Petr Kovář2009-02-221-19/+12 * Updated Catalan documentationGil Forcada Codinachs2008-10-201-517/+708 * Updated Spanish translationJorge Gonzalez Gonzalez2008-10-132-529/+620 * Fixed Czech UI & manual translation by Lucas Lommer (bug #554110).Petr Kovář2008-09-291-530/+587 * C/epiphany.xml: Port 2.24 documentation fixes to trunkReinout van Schouwen2008-09-241-6/+22 * Updated Czech translation by Lucas Lommer. Added Czech translation of manual ...Petr Kovář2008-09-212-1/+3209 * Updated French translation (synched with gnome-2-24).Claude Paroz2008-09-081-573/+671 * 2008-09-04 Reinout van Schouwen <reinouts@gnome.org>Reinout van Schouwen2008-09-041-7/+23 * Also remove ChangeLog from po/ and help/, and dist the old ones.Christian Persch2008-08-051-0/+0 * Updated Spanish translationJorge Gonzalez Gonzalez2008-07-142-36/+44 * Renamed Smart Bookmarks to Bookmarked Searches in user documentation, closes:...Diego Escalante Urrelo2008-07-091-17/+17 * Updated Occitan translationYannig MARCHEGAY2008-07-031-1/+1 * Updated Spanish translationJorge Gonzalez Gonzalez2008-05-292-453/+447 * Correct the paragraph about Page Setup. Fixes bug #534744.Reinout van Schouwen2008-05-262-6/+21 * Updated Spanish translationJorge Gonzalez Gonzalez2008-05-242-432/+493 * 2008-05-18 Reinout van Schouwen <reinouts@gnome.org>Reinout van Schouwen2008-05-191-3/+17 * Updated Greek translationNikos Charonitakis2008-05-051-0/+5 * Updated Greek translation by Giannis Katsampirhs <juankatsampirhs@gmail.com>Nikos Charonitakis2008-05-051-822/+823 * Updated Spanish translationJorge Gonzalez Gonzalez2008-03-302-484/+494 * Update description of the Epiphany manual. Patch by Diana Horqque. Diego Escalante Urrelo2008-03-251-1/+6 * Updated Greek translationNikos Charonitakis2008-03-181-0/+4 * Updated Greek translationNikos Charonitakis2008-03-181-1344/+775 * - nl.po: Updated Dutch translation of documentationReinout van Schouwen2008-03-051-1958/+698 * Updated Spanish translationJorge Gonzalez Gonzalez2008-03-046-19/+25 * Fix #513538, patch by Mart RaudseppHendrik Richter2008-02-131-7/+7 * Updated French translation.Claude Paroz2008-01-252-253/+317 * Updated Swedish translation.Daniel Nylander2008-01-032-260/+284 * Updated Occitan translationYannig MARCHEGAY2008-01-011-8/+6 * Updated Spanish translationJorge Gonzalez Gonzalez2007-12-262-251/+281 * Add instructions on how to resize the text entry box of a smart bookmarkCosimo Cecchi2007-12-241-0/+14 * Updated Spanish translationJorge Gonzalez Gonzalez2007-12-232-187/+224 * Adds a "Clear All" dialog to clear all the privacy information, and a helpCosimo Cecchi2007-12-211-0/+15 * Updated Russian translation.Vasiliy Faronov2007-12-062-1476/+1586 * Updated Catalan translationGil Forcada Codinachs2007-12-052-881/+2190 * Updated Occitan translationYannig MARCHEGAY2007-11-221-14/+13 * Updated Occitan translationYannig MARCHEGAY2007-11-211-32/+26 * Fixes to Catalan translationJordi Mas2007-11-051-6/+6 * Updated Occitan translationYannig MARCHEGAY2007-09-162-9/+11 * Added German translation from 2.20 branch.Jan Arne Petersen2007-09-067-1/+2852 * Updated French translation.Claude Paroz2007-08-282-202/+198 * Fixed a invalid XML tagging in help/ja/ja.po.Satoru Satoh2007-08-222-5/+9 * Updated Occitan translationYannig MARCHEGAY2007-08-221-0/+2517 * Updated Occitan translationYannig MARCHEGAY2007-08-221-1/+1 * Updated screenshot.Daniel Nylander2007-08-212-0/+4 * Corrected Japanese help translation.Satoru Satoh2007-08-142-16/+21 * Moved a wrongly added log in po/ChangeLog to help/ChangeLog.Satoru Satoh2007-08-141-0/+4 * Updated Japanese help translation.Satoru Satoh2007-08-141-1148/+1474 * sv.po: Swedish translation updatedDaniel Nylander2007-08-112-4/+8 * Updated Spanish translationJorge Gonzalez Gonzalez2007-08-072-10/+15 * updated Dutch translation. update revision numberReinout van Schouwen2007-08-073-622/+634 * updated Dutch translation. updated Dutch translationReinout van Schouwen2007-08-042-50/+71 * sv.po: Swedish translation updatedDaniel Nylander2007-08-022-1577/+436 * Updated Spanish translationJorge Gonzalez Gonzalez2007-08-012-27/+36 * 2007-08-01 Reinout van Schouwen <reinouts@gnome.org>Reinout van Schouwen2007-08-011-0/+5 * 2007-08-01 Reinout van Schouwen <reinouts@gnome.org>Reinout van Schouwen2007-08-012-83/+65 * 2007-07-09 Reinout van Schouwen <reinouts@gnome.org>Reinout van Schouwen2007-07-101-74/+72 * sv/sv.po: Updated Swedish translationDaniel Nylander2007-06-242-585/+1726