Wyrd

"Because you're tired of waiting for your bloated calendar program to start up."

News

2008-02-21: Wyrd 1.4.4 has been released. This fixes a vulnerability due to insecure tempfile creation.

2007-08-19: The Wyrd 1.4.3 release archive has been updated to wyrd-1.4.3b.tar.gz . The only change is a correction to the manpage, which was incorrectly generated in the original release.

2007-08-17: Wyrd 1.4.3 has been released. This release is compatible with Remind 3.1.0, and can be configured to display advance warning of reminders. See the ChangeLog for details.

Introduction

Wyrd is a text-based front-end to Remind, a sophisticated calendar and alarm program. Remind's power lies in its programmability, and Wyrd does not hide this capability behind flashy GUI dialogs. Rather, Wyrd is designed to make you more efficient at editing your reminder files directly. It also offers a scrollable timetable suitable for visualizing your schedule at a glance. You can check out a screenshot, or take a short tour with the flash demo (3.1 MB).

Unlike most of the calendar applications available today, Wyrd is designed to be both lightweight and fast. Startup time is negligible, UI navigation is instantaneous, and the wyrd process typically consumes less than 2MB of resident memory.

Wyrd is Free Software, released under Version 2 of the GNU General Public License.

Requirements

If you want to compile Wyrd from source, you will need:

some sort of Unix-like operating system, e.g. GNU/Linux, *BSD, Mac OS X...
OCaml v3.08 or greater
the ncurses library
Remind v3.1.0 or greater
GNU make
standard Unix utilities such as 'cat', 'sort', and 'less'.

OS X users should check the notes on OS X support.

NetBSD users: since NetBSD is one of the few platforms that does not use ncurses as the standard curses implementation, you should first install the ncurses package and then configure Wyrd using "./configure CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/pkg/include LDFLAGS=-L/usr/pkg/lib --with-ncurses".

Downloads

Wyrd 1.4.4 was released on 2008-02-21. ChangeLog
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Distribution-Neutral:

source tarball: wyrd-1.4.4.tar.gz (222K)
statically-compiled executable: wyrd-1.4.0-static-i386.tar.gz (521K)
documentation: manual.pdf (71K)

The statically-compiled executable is for x86 Linux. It is designed to be extracted at the filesystem root, and will install into /usr/local . This archive does not depend on OCaml.

Debian/Ubuntu:

Thanks to Rene van Bevern for providing a Debian package for Wyrd. It can be installed via apt from Debian unstable. This package is also available from the Ubuntu Universe repositories.

OpenBSD:

Thanks to Anil Madhavapeddy for putting together an OpenBSD port of Wyrd.

Gentoo:

Thanks to Michael Cummings for uploading a Gentoo ebuild.

GODI:

Thanks to Owen Gunden, Wyrd has been packaged for GODI, the OCaml source distribution.

Fink:

Thanks to Sao over at MacOSXHints for uploading a package to Fink, a repository of open source packages for OS X.

Contact Info

Wyrd is written by Paul Pelzl.
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