-Subject: Developers' notes
-From: Thomas Roessler <roessler@guug.de>
-Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 19:48:08 +0200
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Required tools
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-If you are planning to hack on mutt-ng, please subscribe to the
-mutt-dev mailinglist (mutt-ng-deve-@lists.berlios.de).
+If you are planning to hack on Mutt-ng, please subscribe to the
+Mutt-ng-dev mailinglist (mutt-ng-deve-@lists.berlios.de).
Announcements about recent development
versions go to that mailing list, as go technical discussions and
patches.
- GNU make may be needed for the dependency tricks
-Getting started from CVS
+Getting started from SVN
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-Once you've checked out a copy of the source from CVS, you'll need to
+Once you've checked out a copy of the source from SVN from
+svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/mutt-ng , you'll need to
run the script called 'prepare' that is in the root directory. The
script does all the automake/autoconf magic that needs to be done with
a fresh checkout.
A word about warnings
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-Mutt's default build process sets some pretty restrictive compiler
+Mutt-ng's default build process sets some pretty restrictive compiler
flags which may lead to lots of warnings. Generally, warnings are
something which should be eliminated.
Nevertheless, the code in intl/ is said to generate some warnings with
the compiler settings we usually rely upon. This code is not
-maintained by the mutt-ng developpers, so please redirect any comments to
+maintained by the Mutt-ng developpers, so please redirect any comments to
the GNU gettext library's developpers.
- when adding new options, make the old behaviour the
default.
-- try to keep mutt-ng as portable as possible.
+- try to keep Mutt-ng as portable as possible.
- do not use C++-style comments (i.e. "// Comment")
This is used to protect indentations in tables.
Do _not_ use any other SGML or nroff formatting instructions here!
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-$Id: devel-notes.txt,v 3.0 2002/01/24 13:35:07 roessler Exp $