X-Git-Url: http://cgit.sxemacs.org/?p=gnus;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=f4216206df222563a9c032ec04120429f9fa69bd;hp=5b3e954fa51930eeb56aa807a54e7093edfc7c53;hb=dd9fdb9123576f1c0fa65094365f2ba83937b044;hpb=525a19250ecdb8546c060b1e884f0b952bf37028 diff --git a/README b/README index 5b3e954fa..f4216206d 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,11 +1,23 @@ -This package contains a beta version of Gnus (beta because the final version -is the one included in Emacs). The lisp directory contains the source lisp -files, and the texi directory contains a draft of the Gnus info pages. +* Content + +This package contains a development version of Gnus. The lisp directory +contains the source lisp files, and the texi directory contains the Gnus info +pages. + +* Emacsen + +No Gnus does absolutely not work with anything older than Emacs 21 or +XEmacs 21.4. + +Users of the Emacs development version (Emacs 23) are strongly encouraged to +also use the version bundled with Emacs. + +* Setup To use Gnus you first have to unpack the files, which you've obviously done, because you are reading this. -You should definitely byte-compile the source files. To do that, you +You should definitely byte-compile the source files. To do that, you can simply say "./configure && make" in this directory. Do not say "make install". I repeat, do *NOT* say "make install". If @@ -16,10 +28,10 @@ won't. If you are using XEmacs, you *must* say "./configure && make EMACS=xemacs". -Then you have to tell Emacs where Gnus is. You might put something +Then you have to tell Emacs where Gnus is. You might put something like - (setq load-path (cons (expand-file-name "~/gnus-5.10.8/lisp") load-path)) + (setq load-path (cons (expand-file-name "~/ngnus-0.11/lisp") load-path)) (require 'gnus-load) in your .emacs file, or wherever you keep such things. @@ -28,23 +40,20 @@ To enable reading the Gnus manual, you could say something like: (require 'info) (if (featurep 'xemacs) - (add-to-list 'Info-directory-list "~/gnus-5.10.8/texi/") - (add-to-list 'Info-default-directory-list "~/gnus-5.10.8/texi/")) - -Gnus 5.10 does absolutely not work with anything older than Emacs 20.7 or -XEmacs 21.1. + (add-to-list 'Info-directory-list "~/ngnus-0.11/texi/") + (add-to-list 'Info-default-directory-list "~/ngnus-0.11/texi/")) To compile the Gnus manual, you either need a pretty new Emacs, or a pretty new version of the texinfo tools. Then you do a `M-x gnus', and everything should... uhm... it should -work, but it might not. Set `debug-on-error' to t, and mail me the +work, but it might not. Set `debug-on-error' to t, and mail me the backtraces, or, better yet, find out why Gnus does something wrong, -fix it, and send me the diffs. :-) +fix it, and send me the diffs. :-) There are four main things I want your help and input on: -1) Startup. Does everything go smoothly, and why not? +1) Startup. Does everything go smoothly, and why not? 2) Any errors while you read news normally? @@ -54,4 +63,9 @@ There are four main things I want your help and input on: bit, and features you would like to see. Send any comments and all your bug fixes/complaints to -`bugs@gnus.org'. +`bugs@gnus.org'. + + +Local variables: +mode: outline +End: