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. - xml-i18n-tools - 0.7 or later (*) - 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 - 0.5.6 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. - gnome-vfs - 0.4.2 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 - 0.33 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) - 0.4.99.8 or later - gtkhtml - 0.8.2 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 93' href='#n93'>93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 341 342 343 344 345 346 347 348 349 350 351 352 353 354 355 356 357 358 359 360 361 362 363 364 365 366 367 368 369 370 371 372 373 374 375 376 377 378 379 380 381 382 383 384 385 386 387 388 389 390 391 392 393 394 395 396 397 398 399 400 401 402 403 404 405 406 407 408 409 410 411 412 413 414 415 416 417 418 419 420 421 422 423 424 425 426 427 428 429 430 431 432 433 434 435 436 437 438 439 440 441 442 443 444 445 446 447 448 449 450 451 452 453 454 455 456 457 458 459 460 461 462 463 464 465 466 467 468 469 470 471 472 473 474 475 476 477 478 479