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-wxWindows 2.0 alpha
+wxWidgets 2.9.x
+---------------------------------------------------------
+
+Welcome to wxWidgets, a cross-platform C++ framework for
+writing advanced GUI applications using native controls
+where possible.
+
+In addition to common and advanced GUI facilities such as
+frames, scrolling windows, toolbars, tree controls, icons,
+device contexts, printing, splitter windows and so on, there
+are wrappers for common file operations, and facilities for
+writing TCP/IP applications, thread handling, and more.
+
+Where certain features are not available on a platform, such
+as MDI under Unix and OS X, they are emulated.
+
+A detailed reference manual including in-depth overviews for
+various topics is supplied in various formats and can be
+accessed online.
+
+Changes in this release
+-----------------------
+
+Please see changes.txt and "Changes since 2.8" in the manual
+for details.
+
+Platforms supported

 -------------------
 
 -------------------
 

-This is an alpha distribution of wxWindows 2.0. It may be made up
-of sources for different platforms from different authors.
+wxWidgets currently supports the following platforms:
+
+- Windows 95/98/ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista, Pocket PC/Mobile, Smartphone
+- Most Unix variants using the  GTK+ 2 toolkit (version 2.4 or newer)
+- MacOS OS X (10.4 or newer) using Carbon and some Cocao mix-in
+
+There is some support for the followig platforms:
+
+- Most Unix variants with X11
+- Most Unix variants with Motif/Lesstif
+- Most Unix variants with GTK+ 1.2
+- MacOS 10.x using the Cocoa API
+- OS/2
+- PalmOS
+
+Most popular C++ compilers are supported; see the install.txt
+file for each platform (available via docs/html/index.htm) for details.
+See also http://www.wxwidgets.org/platform.htm.

 
 

-For generic installation information, see the docs directory. For
-platform-specific installation information see:
+Files
+-----
+
+The distribution is available in archive formats appropriate to the
+target system. See the download pages for details.
+
+Installation
+------------
+
+wxWidgets needs to be compiled before you can test out the samples
+or write your own applications. For installation information, please
+see the install.txt file in the individual directories:

 
   docs/msw
   docs/gtk
   docs/motif
 
   docs/msw
   docs/gtk
   docs/motif

+  docs/osx
+  docs/cocoa
+  docs/x11
+  docs/mgl
+  docs/os2
+  docs/palmos
+
+Licence information
+-------------------
+
+For licensing information, please see the files:
+
+  docs/preamble.txt
+  docs/licence.txt
+  docs/licendoc.txt
+  docs/gpl.txt
+  docs/lgpl.txt
+
+Although this may seem complex, it is there to allow authors of
+proprietary/commercial applications to use wxWidgets in addition
+to those writing GPL'ed applications. In summary, the licence is
+LGPL plus a clause allowing unrestricted distribution of
+application binaries. To answer a FAQ, you don't have to
+distribute any source if you wish to write commercial
+applications using wxWidgets. 
+
+However, if you distribute wxGTK or wxMotif (with Lesstif)
+version of your application, don't forget that it is linked
+against GTK+ (or Lesstif) which is covered by LGPL *without*
+exception notice. Under Linux systems your app is probably linked
+against LGPL glibc as well. Please read carefully LGPL, section
+6. which describes conditions for distribution of closed source
+applications linked against LGPL library. Basically you should
+link dynamically and include source code of LGPL libraries with
+your product (unless it is already present in user's system -
+like glibc usually is). 
+
+If you use TIFF image handler, please see src/tiff/COPYRIGHT
+for libtiff licence details.
+
+If you use JPEG image handler, documentation for your program
+should contain following sentence: "This software is based in
+part on the work of the Independent JPEG Group". See
+src/jpeg/README for details.
+
+If you use wxRegEx class on a system without native regular
+expressions support (i.e. MS Windows), see src/regex/COPYRIGHT
+file for Henry Spencer's regular expression library copyright.
+
+If you use wxXML classes or XRC, see src/expat/COPYING for licence details.
+
+Documentation
+-------------
+
+See docs/html/index.htm for an HTML index of the major documents.
+
+See docs/changes.txt for a summary of changes to wxWidgets.
+
+See docs/tech for an archive of technical notes.
+
+The wxWidgets bug tracker can be browsed at:
+
+    http://trac.wxwidgets.org/report
+
+Please use the search function of our Trac installation to find
+any possibly relevant bugs before reporting new ones. Also please
+notice that often trying to correct the bug yourself is the
+quickest way to fix it. Even if you fail to do it, you may
+discover valuable information allowing us to fix it while doing
+it. We also give much higher priority to bug reports with patches
+fixing the problems so this ensures that your report will be
+addressed sooner.
+
+The Windows HTML Help files are located in docs/htmlhelp.
+The Windows Help files are located in docs/winhelp.
+The PDF help files are located in docs/pdf.
+The HTB (wxWidgets HTML Help) files are located in docs/htb.
+
+Further information
+-------------------
+
+The wxWidgets Web site is located at:
+
+  http://www.wxwidgets.org
+
+The main wxWidgets ftp site is at:
+
+  ftp://biolpc22.york.ac.uk/pub
+
+A wxWidgets CD-ROM with the latest distribution plus an HTML
+front-end and hundreds of MB of compilers, utilities and other
+material may be ordered from the CD-ROM page: see the wxWidgets
+web site.
+
+Have fun!
+
+The wxWidgets Team, January 2007