-These are preliminary instructions, until we get the config more polished.
+Quassel IRC - Installation Notes
+================================
-To build Quassel IRC, cd to build/ and run qmake && make. This builds all three
-versions of Quassel. You may choose individual targets by setting qmakes BUILD
-variable:
+These are preliminary instructions, until we get the config more
+polished.
+
+Quassel IRC provides three binaries: quasselcore, quasselclient, and
+quassel. While quasselcore and quasselclient obviously provide the
+separated core and client functionality, the latter one (quassel) is a
+monolithic version containing both of them for convenience.
+
+To build Quassel IRC, cd to build/ and run qmake && make. This
+builds all three versions of Quassel. You may choose individual
+targets by setting qmakes BUILD variable:
qmake BUILD=<foo>
-where <foo> is any combination of qtclient, core, mono or all. Note that in order
-to change this later, you will have to make distclean, otherwise the BUILD setting
-seems to be ignored by qmake.
+where <foo> is any combination of qtclient, core, mono or all. Note
+that in order to change this later, you will have to make distclean,
+otherwise the BUILD setting seems to be ignored by qmake.
After running make, you will find the binaries in build/targets.
-make install will probably do something, but it has never been tried and may destroy
-your system or kill a kitten. It's not necessary anyway, since there are no installable
-files other than the binaries. Though this might change in later releases.
+make install will probably do something, but it has never been tried
+and may destroy your system or kill a kitten. It's not necessary
+anyway, since there are no installable files other than the
+binaries. Though this might change in later releases.
-On first run of the Quassel core, it will wait for a client to connect and present a
-(preliminary) first-run wizard. This will allow you to create the database and one
-admin user for the core-side storage. Note that Quassel does not support the
-administration of user accounts yet, this includes adding more users, changing passwords
-and so on. This is high on our TODO list, of course.
+On first run of the Quassel core, it will wait for a client to connect
+and present a wizard that will allow you to create the database and one
+admin user for the core-side storage. Note that Quassel does not support
+the administration of user accounts yet, this includes adding more users,
+changing passwords and so on.
Please also do read the README file.
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