From f01c60d0613a80ffcff554ac0ee075b5042da598 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Nagy Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2016 17:18:16 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] More docs --- docs/book/download.txt | 10 ++++------ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/book/download.txt b/docs/book/download.txt index 02678bb6..2c3348cf 100644 --- a/docs/book/download.txt +++ b/docs/book/download.txt @@ -2,13 +2,9 @@ === Obtaining the Waf file -==== Requirements - -The current Waf version requires an interpreter for the Python programming language such as http://www.python.org[cPython] 2.5 to 3.5, http://pypy.org[Pypy] or http://www.jython.org[Jython] >= 2.5. - ==== Running the Waf binary script -The Waf file is a python script which may be executed directly from a writable folder; no installation is required. Just rename it as +waf+ if necessary: +A Python programming language interpreter such as http://www.python.org[cPython] 2.5 to 3.5, http://pypy.org[Pypy] or http://www.jython.org[Jython] >= 2.5 is required to run Waf. The file may be renamed as *waf* is necessary: [source,shishell] --------------- @@ -26,7 +22,9 @@ $ ls -ld .waf* .waf-{version}-2c924e3f453eb715218b9cc852291170 --------------- -NOTE: The binary file requires http://docs.python.org/library/bz2.html[bzip2] compression support, which may be unavailable in some self-compiled cPython installations. +No installation is necessary, but the folder containing the Waf file must be writable. If this is not possible, use the instructions in the next section to point a *WAFDIR* environment variable. + +If http://docs.python.org/library/bz2.html[bzip2] compression support is missing in the python interpreter, please use the instructions in the next sections to build Waf from source. ==== Building Waf from source