version: bump to 0.15.1

[notmuch] / INSTALL

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index de268b6e699fe41a2c28eb4c4b2e2a2feac03c15..fce935289c4a360dd5802d5b20590e2cbefbdc10 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -9,15 +9,19 @@ sequence of:
        make
        sudo make install
 
        make
        sudo make install
 

-You can even skip the configure step if all of the dependencies of
-Notmuch are satisfied. If they are not, the configure script will
-notice that and provide instructions on where to obtain the necessary
-dependencies.
+In fact, if you don't plan to pass any arguments to the configure
+script, then you can skip that step and just start with "make", (which
+will call configure for you). See this command:
+
+       ./configure --help
+
+for detailed documentation of the things you can control at the
+configure stage.

 
 Dependencies
 ------------
 
 Dependencies
 ------------

-Notmuch depends on three libraries: Xapian, GMime 2.4, and Talloc
-which are each described below:
+Notmuch depends on three libraries: Xapian, GMime 2.4 or 2.6, and
+Talloc which are each described below:

 
        Xapian
        ------
 
        Xapian
        ------


@@ -28,19 +32,21 @@ which are each described below:
 
        Xapian is available from http://xapian.org
 
 
        Xapian is available from http://xapian.org
 

-       After installing Xapian, please ensure that you have a command
-       named "xapian-config" on your $PATH as notmuch expects. (At
-       least one notmuch user found that Xapian installed the config
-       program to /usr/local/bin/xapian-config-1.1 ).
+       Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or
+       Xapian 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether
+       1.0 or 1.1) had a performance bug that made notmuch very slow
+       when modifying tags. This would cause distracting pauses when
+       reading mail while notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing
+       the "inbox" and "unread" tags from messages in a thread.

 
 

-       GMime 2.4
-       ---------
-       GMime 2.4 provides decoding of MIME email messages for Notmuch.
+       GMime 2.4 or 2.6
+       ----------------
+       GMime provides decoding of MIME email messages for Notmuch.

 
        Without GMime, Notmuch would not be able to extract and index
        the actual text from email message encoded as BASE64, etc.
 
 
        Without GMime, Notmuch would not be able to extract and index
        the actual text from email message encoded as BASE64, etc.
 

-       GMime 2.4 is available from http://spruce.sourceforge.net/gmime/
+       GMime is available from http://spruce.sourceforge.net/gmime/

 
        Talloc
        ------
 
        Talloc
        ------


@@ -54,16 +60,19 @@ which are each described below:
 
        Talloc is available from http://talloc.samba.org/
 
 
        Talloc is available from http://talloc.samba.org/
 

-On a modern, package-based operating system such as Debian, you can
-install all of the dependencies with the following simple command
-line:
+On a modern, package-based operating system you can install all of the
+dependencies with a simple simple command line. For example:

 
 

-        sudo apt-get install libxapian-dev libgmime-2.4-dev libtalloc-dev
+  For Debian and similar:

 
 

-On other systems, a similar command can be used, but the details of
-the package names may be different, (such as "devel" in place of
-"dev").
+        sudo apt-get install libxapian-dev libgmime-2.6-dev libtalloc-dev

 
 

+  For Fedora and similar:
+
+       sudo yum install xapian-core-devel gmime-devel libtalloc-devel
+
+On other systems, a similar command can be used, but the details of
+the package names may be different.