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LIBICAL -- An implementation of basic iCAL protocols
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The code and datafiles in this distribution are licensed under the
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Mozilla Public License. See http://www.mozilla.org/NPL/MPL-1.0.html
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for a copy of the license. Alternately, you may use libical under the
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terms of the GNU Library General Public License. See
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http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/lesser.html for a copy of the LGPL.
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This dual license ensures that the library can be incorporated into
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both proprietary code and GPL'd programs, and will benefit from
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improvements made by programmers in both realms. I will only accept
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changes into my version of the library if they are similarly
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dual-licensed.
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The code in this distribution implements the iCal protocols as
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described in RFC2445 and RFC2446. The code is in very early stages of
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development.
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This code is under active development. If you would like to contribute
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to the project, you can contact me, Eric Busboom, at
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eric@softwarestudio.org. The project has a webpage at
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http://softwarestudio.org/libical/index.html
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and a mailing list that you can join by sending the following mail:
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To: minimalist@softwarestudio.org
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Subject: subscribe libical
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Building the library
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--------------------
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This distribution is developed on Red Hat Linux 6.0 and usually
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compiles on SunOS 5.6 and FreeBSD 2.27. I have reports of success of
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previous version on MacOS ( with CodeWarrior ) but I don't know about
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any other systems.
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The library is configured with automake. From the root directory, run
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./configure
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To build all of the Makefiles for your system. If you will be installing the library, you may want to use the --prefix flag to set the directory where the library and header files will be installed.
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./configure --prefix=/proj/local/
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If configure runs fine, run "make" to build the library and
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"make install" to install it.
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The current version of libical focuses on creating and
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manipulating iCal objects. With it, you can parse text representations
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of iCal components, add and remove sub-components, properties,
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parameters and values, and print the components back out as strings.
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Notes for Libical Developers
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If you don't want to use gcc as the compiler, and you got the sources
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from CVS, you should set the CC variable to the path to the compiler
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and run "automake --include-deps" to keep automake from using
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gcc-specific automatic dependancy tracking.
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> CC=/pkg/SUNWspro/bin/cc; export CC
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> automake --include-deps
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> ./configure --prefix=/proj/local/
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> make
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You will not need to re-run automake unless you got the sources from CVS.
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Perl Library
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There is a perl language binding of this library, LIBICAL.
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It is available from http://www.softwarestudio.org/libical
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Parser
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The parser is a test program that will convert a text representation
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of an iCal object to the internal representation and print it back out
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as text. It is primarily a test tool, but it is also a good
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demonstration of how the library works.
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To use it, cat one of the test components into the parser
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executable. For example, from the root of the distribution:
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src/test/icalparser < test-data/1.1
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Eric Busboom
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eric@softwarestudio.org
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