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diff --git a/admin/www/requirements.html b/admin/www/requirements.html index 694bd996..f8a86d3e 100644 --- a/admin/www/requirements.html +++ b/admin/www/requirements.html @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd" > <html> <!-- THIS PAGE IS AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED. DO NOT EDIT. --> -<!-- Sat Feb 12 12:13:22 2005 --> +<!-- Mon May 30 15:51:27 2005 --> <!-- USING HT2HTML 2.0 --> <!-- SEE http://ht2html.sf.net --> <!-- User-specified headers: @@ -112,16 +112,16 @@ Overview Downloading </font></b></td></tr> <tr><td bgcolor="#eecfa1"> -<a href="download.html">Downloading</a> +<b>Requirements</b> </td></tr> <tr><td bgcolor="#eecfa1"> -<a href="version.html">Latest Version</a> +<a href="download.html">Downloading</a> </td></tr> <tr><td bgcolor="#eecfa1"> -<b>Requirements</b> +<a href="install.html">Installing</a> </td></tr> <tr><td bgcolor="#eecfa1"> -<a href="install.html">Installing</a> +<a href="version.html">Latest Version</a> </td></tr> <tr><td bgcolor="#eecfa1"> </td></tr> <tr><td bgcolor="#36648b"><b><font color="#ffffff"> @@ -187,46 +187,58 @@ entire article is permitted in any medium, provided this notice is preserved. <p>Mailman currently runs only on GNU/Linux and any other Un*x-like operating system, such as *BSD, Solaris, etc. It should work on -MacOSX but not earlier versions of MacOS. It probably does not work +MacOSX but not on MacOS 9. It probably does not work on Windows, although it's possible you could get it running on a Cygwin system (please <a href="mailto:mailman-developers@python.org">let the developer community know</a> if you have success with this!) -<p>Before you can run Mailman, you need to make sure that -<a href="http://www.python.org/">Python</a> is installed. Mailman 2.1 -requires at least Python 2.1.3, although Python 2.2.2 is -recommended. Most GNU/Linux systems come with Python pre-installed, so -you just need to make sure you're running an up-to-date version. You -can do this by executing the following at your shell's command line: +<p>You must have the +<a href="http://www.python.org/">Python</a> +interpreter installed somewhere on your system. Currently Python 2.1 +or newer is required, with Python 2.3 or 2.4 being recommended. Mailman +should work with latest patch release on any Python branch from 2.1 to +2.4, which as of this writing (30-May-2005) is +<a href="http://www.python.org/2.1.3/">Python 2.1.3</a>, +<a href="http://www.python.org/2.2.3/">Python 2.2.3</a>, +<a href="http://www.python.org/2.3.5/">Python 2.3.5</a>, and +<a href="http://www.python.org/2.4.1/">Python 2.4.1</a>. + +<p><em>Note that because Python 2.1 and 2.2 are no longer being developed, and +only critical bugs are being fixed on the Python 2.3 branch, it is recommended +that you upgrade to Python 2.4. It is possible that support for Python 2.1 +and 2.2 will be dropped in a future release of Mailman. Python 2.3 support +will most likely be maintained for the duration of the Mailman 2.1 series.</em> + +<p>Most GNU/Linux systems and MacOSX come with Python pre-installed, so you +just need to make sure you're running an up-to-date version. You can do this +by executing the following at your shell's command line: <blockquote> <pre> % python -V -Python 2.1.3 +Python 2.4.1 </pre> </blockquote> If your Python executable doesn't understand the <code>-V</code> option, it's definitely too old! -<p>You will also need an SMTP server (a.k.a. mail transport agent or -<em>MTA</em>) for mail delivery and reception. Mailman should work -well with any of the most popular Unix mail servers such as -<a href="http://www.postfix.org/">Postfix</a>, -<a href="http://www.exim.org/">Exim</a>, -<a href="http://www.sendmail.org/">Sendmail</a> and -<a href="http://www.qmail.org/">qmail</a>. - -<p>You will also need a web server. -<a href="http://www.apache.org/">Apache</a> is certainly the most -popular, is available for all Unix systems, and works great with -Mailman. +<p>You must have a mail server (MTA) that you can send messages to, and a +web server that supports the CGI/1.1 API. +<a href="http://httpd.apache.org">Apache</a> makes a fine choice +for web server, and MTAs such as +<a href="http://www.postfix.org">Postfix</a>, +<a href="http://www.exim.org">Exim</a>, +<a href="http://www.sendmail.org">Sendmail</a>, and +<a href="http://www.qmail.org">qmail</a> +should work just fine. -<p>To install Mailman from the sources, you will also need an ANSI C -compiler. The -<a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/">GNU C compiler</a> -gcc 2.8.1 or later is known to work well. +<p>You will need an ANSI C compiler to build Mailman's security +wrappers. The +<a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/">GNU C compiler</a> +gcc 2.8.1 or later is known to work +well. </td><!-- end of body cell --> </tr><!-- end of sidebar/body row --> |