From 797e55251d8fa08afe8114eb2c08da429d04ca9b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sebastian Pipping Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2017 16:13:13 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] README.md: Reflect present --- expat/README.md | 37 +++++++------------------------------ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-) diff --git a/expat/README.md b/expat/README.md index c1eafd49..d10e80be 100644 --- a/expat/README.md +++ b/expat/README.md @@ -1,14 +1,16 @@ # Expat, Release 2.2.2 -This is Expat, a C library for parsing XML, written by James Clark. +This is Expat, a C library for parsing XML, started by +[James Clark](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clark_(programmer)) in 1997. Expat is a stream-oriented XML parser. This means that you register handlers with the parser before starting the parse. These handlers are called when the parser discovers the associated structures in the document being parsed. A start tag is an example of the kind of structures for which you may register handlers. -Windows users should use the `expat_win32bin` package, which includes -both precompiled libraries and executables, and source code for +Windows users should use the +[`expat_win32` package](https://sourceforge.net/projects/expat/files/expat_win32/), +which includes both precompiled libraries and executables, and source code for developers. Expat is free software. You may copy, distribute, and modify it under @@ -16,12 +18,8 @@ the terms of the License contained in the file `COPYING` distributed with this package. This license is the same as the MIT/X Consortium license. -Versions of Expat that have an odd minor version (the middle number in -the release above), are development releases and should be considered -as beta software. Releases with even minor version numbers are -intended to be production grade software. - -If you are building Expat from a check-out from the CVS repository, +If you are building Expat from a check-out from the +[Git repository](https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/), you need to run a script that generates the configure script using the GNU autoconf and libtool tools. To do this, you need to have autoconf 2.58 or newer. Run the script like this: @@ -116,17 +114,6 @@ environment, because variable-setting priority is Note: This only applies to the Expat library itself, building UTF-16 versions of xmlwf and the tests is currently not supported. -Note for Solaris users: The `ar` command is usually located in -`/usr/ccs/bin`, which is not in the default `PATH`. You will need to -add this to your path for the `make` command, and probably also switch -to GNU make (the `make` found in `/usr/ccs/bin` does not seem to work -properly — apparently it does not understand `.PHONY` directives). If -you're using ksh or bash, use this command to build: - -```console -PATH=/usr/ccs/bin:$PATH make -``` - When using Expat with a project using autoconf for configuration, you can use the probing macro in `conftools/expat.m4` to determine how to include Expat. See the comments at the top of that file for more @@ -134,13 +121,3 @@ information. A reference manual is available in the file `doc/reference.html` in this distribution. - -The homepage for this project is http://www.libexpat.org/. There -are links there to connect you to the bug reports page. If you need -to report a bug when you don't have access to a browser, you may also -send a bug report by email to expat-bugs@mail.libexpat.org. - -Discussion related to the direction of future expat development takes -place on expat-discuss@mail.libexpat.org. Archives of this list and -other Expat-related lists may be found at -http://mail.libexpat.org/mailman/listinfo/ -- 2.40.0