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Riot

Copyright (c) Tuomo Valkonen 2004-2005. <tuomov at iki.fi>

<http://iki.fi/tuomov/riot/>

BUILDING AND INSTALLING

You will need GHC 6 (The Glorious/Glasgow Haskell Compilation System) and GNU make to compile riot. Once you have ensured that you have these programs installed,

1. If you want to build riot with support for dynamic loading of configuration using hs-plugins, get a recent release of it from

   <ftp://ftp.cse.unsw.edu.au/pub/users/dons/hs-plugins/>

   and build and install it as instructed in the README therein.

2. Edit system.mk to change some settings for your system (usually in the case it has broken wide character support).
3. Run 'make' ('gmake' on some systems) to build riot.
4. Run 'make install' to install it.

CONFIGURATION

If you are using hs-plugins, the configuration file is ~/.riotrc/Config.hs. Otherwise configuration must be done at build time by editing the Config.hs in this directory. See ConfigAPI.hs for the settings that can be changed.

MISCELLANEOUS NOTES

Riot stores its data in mbox format files: you may open riot files in any mail reader, and also open normal mailboxes in riot.

The name of the program is a recursive acronym for 'Riot is an Information/Incredible Organisation Tool' .

CREDITS

Riot itself was mostly written by me, Tuomo Valkonen.

Stefan Heimann has written some significant improvements.

Support for dynamic loading of configuration with hs-plugins was written by Don Stewart.

The code in ginsu/ (including the Curses interface) is mostly by John Meacham; see the LICENSE therein for details. I have made some minor modifications.