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authorStuart Rackham <srackham@methods.co.nz>2009-05-05 08:59:16 +1200
committerStuart Rackham <srackham@methods.co.nz>2009-05-05 08:59:16 +1200
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Partially documented the A-A-P build.
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@@ -46,6 +46,22 @@ and filetype detection scripts will be install in the global Vim
configuration file directory (`asciidoc.vim` in the `syntax` directory
and `asciidoc_filetype.vim` in the `ftdetect` directory).
+.Building the distribution
+*********************************************************************
+The AsciiDoc distribution tarball is built using
+http://www.a-a-p.org/[A-A-P] (a software build system written by Bram
+Moolenaar) and is installed using a separate autoconf make script.
+It's arguable that build and install should be done with a single tool
+but I wrote the A-A-P build scripts before the installer (because I
+find make/autoconf tedious), the make/autoconf installer was added
+much as the canonical installer for packagers and for users who don't
+have pre-built AsciiDoc packages and/or don't want to install from the
+Mercurial repository.
+
+The A-A-P build procedure has yet to be documented.
+
+*********************************************************************
+
Installing from the Mercurial repository
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