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| author | bwarsaw <> | 2007-02-15 01:59:46 +0000 |
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| committer | bwarsaw <> | 2007-02-15 01:59:46 +0000 |
| commit | 6f95cfd79a3d69b9bd1f4ab74c467e2434300ed4 (patch) | |
| tree | b294c2995b4a8a434c5fe13d7ca3a0a20c36d284 | |
| parent | d5d7073e7a3c7baefac8a916cf552bebfd80681f (diff) | |
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Change the Installation Requirements to now recommend Python 2.4.4,
but also point to the wiki as the definitive information on
requirements. (The wiki has been updated.) Remove specific gcc
version requirements; I don't think it actually matters these days.
Also, add a simple Makefile for building the documentation.
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/Makefile | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/mailman-install.tex | 12 |
2 files changed, 15 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/Makefile b/doc/Makefile new file mode 100644 index 00000000..ce31daf8 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/Makefile @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +MKHOWTO = ~/projects/python24/Doc/tools/mkhowto + +all: + $(MKHOWTO) --all mailman-admin.tex + $(MKHOWTO) --all mailman-install.tex + $(MKHOWTO) --all mailman-member-es.tex + $(MKHOWTO) --all mailman-member.tex diff --git a/doc/mailman-install.tex b/doc/mailman-install.tex index 73b9a977..0d295221 100644 --- a/doc/mailman-install.tex +++ b/doc/mailman-install.tex @@ -41,6 +41,11 @@ The GNU Mailman website is at \url{http://www.list.org} \section{Installation Requirements} +\emph{Please note that the information on this page may be out of date.} +Check for the +\ulink{latest installation information}{http://wiki.list.org/x/bAM} on the +\ulink{Mailman wiki}{http://wiki.list.org}. + GNU Mailman works on most POSIX-based systems such as \UNIX{}, MacOSX, or GNU/Linux. It does not currently work on Windows. You must have a mail server that you can send messages to, and a web server that supports the @@ -54,12 +59,11 @@ work just fine. To install Mailman from source, you will need an ANSI C compiler to build Mailman's security wrappers. The -\ulink{GNU C compiler gcc}{http://gcc.gnu.org} 2.8.1 or later is known -to work well. +\ulink{GNU C compiler gcc}{http://gcc.gnu.org} works well. You must have the \ulink{Python}{http://www.python.org} interpreter installed -somewhere on your system. Mailman 2.1 requires Python 2.1 or newer, although -Python 2.3 or newer is recommended. +somewhere on your system. As of this writing, Python 2.4.4 is recommended, +but see the wiki page above for the latest information. \section{Set up your system} |