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libinfinity collaborative editing library
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libinfinity collaborative editing library

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# libinfinity

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libinfinity is library to build collaborative text editors. Changes to
the text buffers are synced to all other clients over a central server.
Even though a central server is involved, the local user sees his
changes applied instantly and the merging is done on the individual
clients.

## Components

infinote consists of the following parts:

- **libinfinity:**
Library implementing the core infinote part
- **infinoted:**
Simple stand-alone infinote server application
- **libinfgtk:**
Provides glib main loop integration and GTK+ widgets related to libinfinity
- **libinftext:**
Infinote plugin implementing real-time collaborative text editing
- **libinftextgtk:**
Implements the InfTextBuffer interface with a GtkTextBuffer as backend
- **libinfinoted-plugin-manager:**
Provides an interface to infinoted for plugins.

## Requirements

libinfinity requires:

- glib-2.0 >= 2.38
- gobject-2.0 >= 2.38
- libxml-2.0
- gnutls >= 2.12.0
- gsasl >= 0.2.21
- avahi (optional)

infinoted:

- libinfinity
- libdaemon (optional)

libinfgtk:

- libinfinity
- gtk+-3.0 >= 3.10

libinftext:

- libinfinity

libinftextgtk:

- libinftext
- gtk+-3.0 >= 3.10

## Development

This library is developed by Armin Burgmeier . Artwork is
done by Benjamin Herr . To get in contact with the developers,
either use the mailing list [email protected] (to which you can
subscribe by sending mail to [email protected]) or drop by
in our IRC channel #infinote on irc.freenode.org. Feel free to clone
this GitHub repository and propose pull requests. Issues can be reported
to the [GitHub issue tracker](https://github.com/gobby/libinfinity/issues).