Shishi README-alpha -- Important introductory notes for alpha releases.
Copyright (C) 2002, 2003 Simon Josefsson
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Shishi is unstable.  You should expect it to not work.  You should
expect it to have security problems.  The API will likely change.
This is the development release.  A proper release will be made in due
time.  Let me repeat that, SHISHI IS MOST LIKELY INSECURE. DO NOT USE
IN A PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENT!

It will not become stable without help.  Donate time or money.

To compile from CVS, you need perl, texinfo, GTK-DOC, autoconf 2.5+,
and automake 1.7+.  Bootstrap the build environment with:

  $ ./autogen.sh

Then run ./configure etc as usual.

A note to binary package builders: please build using --disable-shared
because during the development phase, only the so revision will be
bumped on releases.  If you build shared libraries, other packages
that link to them may stop working when a new release of the library
is installed.  The reason for this is simply that the package is not
mature enough to warrant proper shared object versioning.

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