Rocco Rutte:

[apps/madmutt.git] / doc / devel-notes.txt

diff --git a/doc/devel-notes.txt b/doc/devel-notes.txt
index 85b3b7e..ccb5e59 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/devel-notes.txt
+++ b/doc/devel-notes.txt
@@ -1,13 +1,8 @@
-Subject: Developers' notes
-From: Thomas Roessler <roessler@guug.de>
-Date: Tue,  9 May 2000 19:48:08 +0200
-
-
 Required tools
 --------------
 
-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-devel mailinglist (mutt-ng-deve-l@lists.berlios.de).
 Announcements about recent development
 versions go to that mailing list, as go technical discussions and
 patches.
@@ -57,25 +52,26 @@ You'll need several GNU development utilities for working on mutt-ng:
 - GNU make may be needed for the dependency tricks
 
 
-Getting started from CVS
+Getting started from SVN
 ------------------------
 
-Once you've checked out a copy of the source from CVS, 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.
+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. If
+all steps succeed, you'll have a configure script to start off with.
 
 
 A word about warnings
 ---------------------
 
-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.
 
 
@@ -99,7 +95,7 @@ Style Guide
 - 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")
 
@@ -119,8 +115,9 @@ Configuration _variables_ are documented directly in init.h.   Note
 that this includes documentation for possibly added format flags!
 
 When adding variables which depend on system-functionality and/or
-./configure switches, you have to add additional availability
-information to avoid confusion in the manual.
+./configure switches, you have to add additional "availability"
+information to init.h to avoid confusion in the manual. Please see
+init.h for examples.
 
 The parts of The Manual and the muttngrc manual page dealing with
 these variables, and the global Muttrc, are generated automatically
@@ -179,5 +176,3 @@ similar to [ntg]roff:
    This is used to protect indentations in tables.
 
 Do _not_ use any other SGML or nroff formatting instructions here!
-
-$Id: devel-notes.txt,v 3.0 2002/01/24 13:35:07 roessler Exp $