$Id: Readme.txt,v 1.7 2000/12/10 05:44:34 dan Exp $



MiG - A general purpose photo gallery management system; "My Image Gallery"

Copyright (C) 2000 Daniel M. Lowe	<dan@tangledhelix.com>


LICENSE INFORMATION
-------------------

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307, USA.

A copy of the GPL can be found at http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
or in the file docs/License.txt.


REQUIREMENTS
------------

A web server which supports PHP.  PHP3 or PHP4 should work.  Windows users
will be better off upgrading to the latest version of PHP4.

Some utilities (such as convert-metafiles and mkGallery) require Perl.
mkGallery also requires the ImageMagick "convert" program.  See the file
docs/Utilities.txt for more information.  Perl/ImageMagick are not required
for MiG itself - only if you want to use these bundled utility scripts.

If you wish to extract embedded comments from JPEG files, you will also
need a C compiler in order to build the included "jhead" utility.


INSTALLATION
------------

Please read the file docs/Install.txt for installation instructions.

Windows users should additionally refer to docs/Windows.txt for installation
information.

PHP-Nuke users should read docs/phpNuke.txt for more information.

It's also a good idea to read docs/ChangeLog.txt to see what has changed
recently, or just to get an idea of what MiG can do and what its pitfalls
might be.


MAILING LISTS
-------------

There are two mailing lists related to MiG:


  mig-announce@tangledhelix.com

    This is an announcements-only list where new versions will be
    announced, or any other important news will be posted.

    To subscribe:  http://snoopy.net/mailman/listinfo/mig-announce


  mig-users@tangledhelix.com

    This is a general discussion list where any MiG-related topic can
    be brought up, or questions asked.

    To subscribe:  http://snoopy.net/mailman/listinfo/mig-users



REPORTING BUGS
--------------

Any bugs should be reported to <mig-bugs@tangledhelix.com>


WISH LIST
---------

Items on the "wish list" can be found in docs/TODO.txt.  To add an item to
the wishlist, email <mig-wishlist@tangledhelix.com>.


