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Signed-off-by: Matthias Beyer <mail@beyermatthias.de>
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@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ but we do not consider anything stable or usable at this moment. Feel free to
play around anyways.**
## Goal / What is imag?
## Mission statement
Our (long-term) goal is to
@ -15,9 +15,8 @@ Our (long-term) goal is to
> suite of tools to cover all aspects of personal information management.
Yes, imag is a rather ambitious project as it tries to reimplement functionality
for several "personal information management aspects". It is a hobby project,
keep that in mind. We try to use standards like vcard, icalendar and others
wherever possible.
for several "personal information management aspects".
We try to use standards like vcard, icalendar and others wherever possible.
Have a look at [the documentation](./doc/) for some more words on this.
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Here is how to try `imag` out.
`imag` is a _suite/collection_ of tools (like git, for example) and you can
build them individually.
All subdirectories prefixed with "`libimag"` are libraries.
All subdirectories prefixed with `"imag-"` are binaries and compiling them will
give you a commandline application.
build each "module" individually.
### Building
We use `cargo` for building all crates in this repository.
Make sure to use a recent `cargo`, at least one with workspace support.
Building all crates works with `cargo build --all`, building individual crates
by specifying the `--manifest-path` flag to cargo.
by specifying the `--manifest-path` flag to cargo. The crates in ./bin are the
actual commandline tools, ./bin/core contains a core set of imag commands
("plumbing" in git-speak) and ./bin/domain contains domain-specific imag
commands, for example a todo tool or a bookmark tool.
### Running