@@ -8,7 +8,11 @@ Downloading an official release
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All stable versions of :mod: `cpp-netlib ` can be downloaded from
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- Github _. Each release is available as gzipped (Using the command
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+ Github _ from this url:
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+ http://github.com/cpp-netlib/cpp-netlib/downloads
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+ Each release is available as gzipped (Using the command
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``tar xzf cpp-netlib.tar.gz ``) or bzipped (Using ``tar xjf
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cpp-netlib.tar.bz2 ``) tarball, or as a zipfile (``unzip
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cpp-netlib.zip ``, or on Windows using a tool such as 7zip _).
@@ -32,6 +36,16 @@ This should be enough information get to started. To do more complex
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things with Git, such as pulling changes or checking out a new branch,
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refer to the `Git documentation `_.
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+ .. note :: If you look at the Git repository closely, this is the repository of
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+ *mikhailberis * instead of *cpp-netlib *. The reason is that the main developer
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+ and maintainer of the project is Dean Michael Berris, who goes by the alias
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+ *mikhailberis * on the Internet.
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+ Dean does the merging and maintenance of the whole library, similar to how
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+ `Linus Torvalds `_ of the Linux project acts as the gatekeeper of the project.
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+ .. _`Linus Torvalds` : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds
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Windows users need to use msysGit _, and to invoke the command above
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from a shell.
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@@ -106,6 +120,9 @@ additional parameters::
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> -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=g++ \
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> .
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+ Building on Linux
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+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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On Linux, this will generate the appropriate Makefiles that will enable you to
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build and run the tests and examples that come with :mod: `cpp-netlib `. To build
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the tests, you can run ``make `` in the same top-level directory of
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