vmote 2003/04/06 20:37:19
Modified: src/documentation/content/xdocs download.xml
Log:
Rearrange for clarity.
Revision Changes Path
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Index: download.xml
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RCS file: /home/cvs/xml-fop/src/documentation/content/xdocs/download.xml,v
retrieving revision 1.5
retrieving revision 1.6
diff -u -r1.5 -r1.6
--- download.xml 1 Apr 2003 20:11:26 -0000 1.5
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"http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/xml-forrest/src/resources/schema/dtd/document-v11.dtd";>
<document>
- <header>
- <title>Download</title>
- </header>
-
- <body>
-<section>
- <title>Downloading FOP</title>
- <p>You can download the latest release version from the <link
- href="http://xml.apache.org/dist/fop/";>distribution directory</link>. </p>
- <p>Each version exists as binary (bin) and source (src) distribution. The
binary distribution contains the
- compiled package along with the documentation (including some example XSL-FO
files). The source distribution
- additionally contains the whole source code.</p>
- <p>If you want to work with the latest and nicest code, you can download it
from CVS. See the section
- on AnonCVS in the <link href="http://xml.apache.org/cvs.html";>xml.apache.org
documentation</link> for details.</p>
- <p>Sometimes people have difficulties to access the CVS server; in this case
you can download
- a snapshot from the CVS files <link
href="http://xml.apache.org/from-cvs/xml-fop/";>here</link>.
- Please be aware that the snapshots currently mirrors the development code
for the upcoming FOP 1.0 and not the
- code from the current releases. You need to download from CVS in this case.
(See the note below)</p>
- <p>If you don't download a binary distribution you have to build FOP yourself -
- see <link href="compiling.html">Compiling FOP</link> for details.
- </p>
- <note>
- Important: Currently, releases of FOP are coming out of the
- "fop-0_20_2-maintain" branch. The "MAIN" branch is currently
- under development. See <link href="dev/index.html">Development Docs</link>
- for more information.
- </note>
- <p>To run FOP from the command line, see <link href="running.html">Running
FOP</link>.</p>
- <p>If you are interested in embedding FOP in a Java application of your own, see
- <link href="embedding.html">Embedding FOP</link>.
- </p>
+ <header>
+ <title>Downloading FOP</title>
+ </header>
+ <body>
+ <section>
+ <title>Binary or Source?</title>
+ <p>Most FOP users will want to download the latest binary distribution, which
is ready to run "out of the box."
+However, a source distribution will be preferable if you fall into one of the
following categories:</p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>You wish to modify FOP.</li>
+ <li>You wish to use a version more recent than the latest release. For
example, if you have read on the user mailing list that a bug has been fixed or a
feature added that you are eager to try, you might download a source distribution from
the CVS repository so that you don't have to wait for the next release.</li>
+ </ul>
+ </section>
+ <section>
+ <title>Binary Download</title>
+ <p>Binary distributions include "-bin" in their names, and can be downloaded
from the <link href="http://xml.apache.org/dist/fop/";>FOP Distribution</link>
directory.
+</p>
+ </section>
+ <section>
+ <title>Source Download</title>
+ <p>You must first determine which of the two main development branches you wish
to download, "maintenance" or "redesign".
+See <link href="dev/index.html">Development Introduction</link> for more details on
the choices, and for the CVS tags to use when downloading the "maintenance" branch.</p>
+ <p>There are three ways to obtain a source distribution. Please note that they
are listed from least current to most current:</p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Download a released version from the <link
href="http://xml.apache.org/dist/fop/";>FOP Distribution</link> directory. Source
distributions include "-src" in their names. Please note that official releases
currently are <em>only</em> made from the "maintenance" branch.</li>
+ <li>Download a CVS snapshot from the cvs files <link
href="http://xml.apache.org/from-cvs/xml-fop/";>here</link>. These snapshots are built
approximately every six hours, and have the GMT of their creation time embedded in
their names. Please note that CVS snapshots are made only for the "redesign"
branch.</li>
+ <li>Download directly from the CVS repository.
+Anyone can do this using the <link
href="http://xml.apache.org/cvs.html#AnonCVS";>Anonymous CVS Server</link>. By default,
the CVS code is up-to-the-minute, the same code that the developers are modifying. See
the <link href="dev/tools.html#cvs">CVS section of Developer Tools</link> for more
information on using CVS.</li>
+ </ul>
+ <p>With any source distribution, you will need to <link
href="compiling.html">Build FOP</link> from the source files.</p>
</section>
</body>
</document>
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