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-wxWindows 2.0 alpha
+wxWindows 2.5.0
+---------------
+
+*** Please note that this is an UNSTABLE DEVELOPMENT SNAPSHOT.
+*** Unless you need the new features and bug fixes, you may wish to
+*** use the official 2.4.x stable series.
+
+Welcome to wxWindows 2, a sophisticated cross-platform C++
+framework for writing advanced GUI applications using (where
+possible) the native controls.
+
+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 and tree
+controls on Unix, they are emulated.
+
+A detailed 1800-page reference manual is supplied in HTML, PDF
+and Windows Help form: see the docs hierarchy.
+
+For a quick start, point your Web browser at docs/html/index.htm
+for a list of important documents and samples.
+
+Changes in this release
+-----------------------
+
+Please see changes.txt for details.
+
+Platforms supported
+-------------------
+
+wxWindows currently supports the following platforms:
+
+- Windows 95/98/ME, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP
+- Most Unix variants with GTK+
+- Most Unix variants with X11
+- Most Unix variants with Motif/Lesstif
+- MacOS 9.x and 10.x
+- OS/2 (alpha)
+
+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.wxwindows.org/platform.htm.
+
+Files
+-----
+
+The distribution is available in archive formats appropriate to the
+target system. Documentation is available mainly in zip format.
+In the following, x.y.z represents the current version number.
+
+wxWindows for GTK+ distribution
+-------------------------------
+
+wxGTK-x.y.z.tar.gz                 wxGTK source distribution. You will
+                                   need the HTML, HTB and/or PDF documentation
+                                   (see below)
+wxGTK-demos-x.y.z.tar.gz           wxGTK demos source
+wxGTK-samples-x.y.z.tar.gz         wxGTK samples source
+wxGTK-x.y.z-0.src.rpm              wxGTK Linux source as an RPM, without manuals
+wxGTK-x.y.z-0.i386.rpm             wxGTK Linux binaries as an RPM, without manuals
+wxGTK-devel-x.y.z-0.i386.rpm       wxGTK Linux minimum development system as an RPM
+wxGTK-gl-x.y.z-0.i386.rpm          Add-on OpenGL binary as an RPM
+
+wxWindows for X11 and Motif distribution
+----------------------------------------
+
+wxX11-x.y.z.tar.gz                 wxX11 and wxMotif source distribution, without
+                                   documentation.
+
+wxWindows for MS Windows distribution
+-------------------------------------
+
+setup.exe, setup-*.bin             Setup files in floppy-disk-sized chunks
+wxMSW-x.y.z-setup.zip              Zip archive containing the
+                                   setup files
+wxMSW-x.y.z.zip                    Zip archive containing all the files that are
+                                   in the setup distribution
+
+As well as the core source, the wxMSW distribution contains:
+
+- Windows HTML Help versions of the documentation (docs/htmlhelp);
+- a Dialog Editor binary;
+- a Tex2RTF binary;
+- Life! sample binary.
+
+wxWindows for MacOS distribution
+--------------------------------
+
+wxMac-x.y.z.zip                    Zip archive containing all
+                                   source files (excludes documentation)
+wxMac-x.y.z.tar.gz                 Gzipped tar archive containing all
+                                   source files (excludes documentation).
+                                   You might prefer this format if building on
+                                   MacOS X, since it preserves file permissions.
+
+wxWindows for OS/2 distribution
+-------------------------------
+
+wxOS2-x.y.z.zip                    Zip archive containing all source files
+                                   (excludes documentation)
+
+Documentation files

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

-This is an alpha distribution of wxWindows 2.0. It may be made up
-of sources for different platforms from different authors.
+wxWindows-x.y.z-WinHelp.zip        WinHelp documentation
+wxWindows-x.y.z-PDF.zip            Acrobat PDF documentation
+wxWindows-x.y.z-HTML.zip           HTML documentation
+wxWindows-x.y.z-HTMLHelp.zip       Windows HTML Help documentation
+wxWindows-x.y.z-HTB.zip            wxHTML documentation (for
+                                   use with the helpview utility)
+
+Installation
+------------
+
+wxWindows 2 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/mac
+  docs/x11
+  docs/mgl
+  docs/os2
+
+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 wxWindows 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 wxWindows. 
+
+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 compiled with --enable-odbc (Unix only), wxWindows library will 
+contain iODBC library which is covered by LGPL.
+
+If you use TIFF image handler, please see src/tiff/COPYRIGHT
+for libtiff license 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.
+
+Documentation
+-------------
+
+See docs/html/index.htm for an HTML index of the major documents.
+
+See docs/changes.txt for a summary of changes to wxWindows 2.
+
+See docs/tech for an archive of technical notes.
+
+The wxWindows bug database can be browsed at:
+
+  http://sourceforge.net/bugs/?group_id=9863
+
+The Windows help files are located in docs/winhelp.
+The PDF help files are located in docs/pdf.
+
+Further information
+-------------------
+
+The wxWindows Web site is located at:
+
+  http://www.wxwindows.org
+
+The main wxWindows ftp site is at:
+
+  ftp://biolpc22.york.ac.uk/pub
+
+A wxWindows 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 wxWindows
+web site.
+
+Have fun!

 
 

-For generic installation information, see the docs directory. For
-platform-specific installation information see for example docs/msw or
-docs/gtk.
+The wxWindows Team, November 2002