From 1f91f4ed5bcb154271ab798223e326efff413b47 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stuart Rackham Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:39:30 +1300 Subject: Updated 'Installation' web page. See http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_frm/thread/dfe5204d5b2c9685 --- INSTALL.txt | 28 +++++++++++++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) (limited to 'INSTALL.txt') diff --git a/INSTALL.txt b/INSTALL.txt index 3cfe758..5ec9460 100644 --- a/INSTALL.txt +++ b/INSTALL.txt @@ -18,10 +18,8 @@ The AsciiDoc http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/[Mercurial] repository is hosted by http://sharesource.org[ShareSource]. ShareSource is a Mercurial friendly website for hosting Open Source projects. To browse the repository go to http://hg.sharesource.org/asciidoc/. - -Installing from the repository is an easy way to install AsciiDoc if -you don't have an up to date packaged version or want to get the -latest version from the trunk: +You can install AsciiDoc from the repository if you don't have an up to +date packaged version or want to get the latest version from the trunk: - Make sure you have http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/[Mercurial] installed, you can check with: @@ -35,12 +33,28 @@ latest version from the trunk: $ cd ~/bin $ hg clone -r {revnumber} http://hg.sharesource.org/asciidoc asciidoc-{revnumber} -You now have two choices, you can run asciidoc directly from you local +.Repository source archives +********************************************************************* +Another way to get the latest asciidoc sources without installing +Mercurial is to download and extract a Zip or Tar formatted archive: + +http://hg.sharesource.org/asciidoc/archive/tip.tar.bz2 + +or: + +http://hg.sharesource.org/asciidoc/archive/tip.zip + +Archives of all revisions (not just the tip) are available at the +repostiory website. + +********************************************************************* + +You now have two choices: you can run asciidoc directly from you local repository or you can use 'autoconf(1)' and 'make(1)' to perform a normal install from the repository. -Running asciidoc from your local repository -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +Running asciidoc from your local copy +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Create a symlink to the AsciiDoc script in a search `PATH` directory so it's easy to execute `asciidoc` from the command-line, for example: -- cgit v1.2.1