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[wxWidgets.git] / docs / gtk / readme.txt

diff --git a/docs/gtk/readme.txt b/docs/gtk/readme.txt
index 0268ca3eafc4c80ab94547df14dfc9ca5154cbe0..34fcf18016c9ac41ed0a8f9f389f95a659d350d9 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/gtk/readme.txt
+++ b/docs/gtk/readme.txt
@@ -1,12 +1,16 @@
 
-  Welcome to wxWindows/Gtk 2.1 beta 1,
+  Welcome to wxWindows/Gtk 2.1 snapshot 9,
 
 you have downloaded version 2.1 of the GTK+ 1.2 port of 
 the wxWindows GUI library. This is a developers release
 and is it not suited for production development. Beware
-that major changes can happen before a final release -
-Particularly the makefile system will change entirly.
- 
+that major changes can happen before a final release.
+
+Beginning with snapshot 9, wxWindows uses a completely
+new make file system on Unix which no longer uses the
+various GNU tools and I hope that I'll never again have
+to write any more makefiles.
+
 More information is available from my homepage at:
 
   http://wesley.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~wxxt
@@ -19,26 +23,16 @@ at Julian Smart's homepage at:
   
 Information on how to install can be found in the file 
 INSTALL.txt, but if you cannot wait, this should work on
-all systems
+many systems (when using GTK 1.0 or when not using Linux
+read the INSTALL.txt):
 
 ./configure
 make
 su <type root password>
-ldconfig
 make install
+ldconfig
 exit
 
-Type the following to make the samples
-
-make samples
-
-To start the samples, change into the directory that
-corresponds to the sample and your system, e.g on a
-linux-gnu machine the minimal sample would get started
-from the wxWindows base dir with
-
-./samples/minimal/linux-gnu/minimal
-
 When you run into problems, please read the INSTALL.txt and
 follow those instructions. If you still don't have any success,
 please send a bug report to one of our mailing lists (see
@@ -48,17 +42,17 @@ DISTRIBUTION YOU USE AND WHAT ERROR WAS REPORTED. I know
 this has no effect, but I tried...
 
 The library produced by the install process will be called 
-libwx_gtk2.a (static) and libwx_gtk2.so.1.0 (shared) so that 
+libwx_gtk.a (static) and libwx_gtk-2.1.so.0.0.0 (shared) so that 
 once a binary incompatible version of wxWindows/Gtk comes out 
-we'll augment library version number to avoid linking problems.
+we'll augment the library version number to avoid linking problems.
 
 Please send problems concerning installation, feature requests, 
-bug reports or comments to the wxWindows users Information on 
-how to subscribe is available from my homepage.
+bug reports or comments to the wxWindows users list. Information 
+on how to subscribe is available from my homepage.
 
 wxWindows/Gtk doesn't come with any guarantee whatsoever. It might 
 crash your harddisk or destroy your monitor. It doesn't claim to be
-suitable for any special purpose.
+suitable for any special or general purpose.
 
   Regards,