- From: Olivier Thereaux via cvs-syncmail <cvsmail@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 07:30:31 +0000
- To: www-validator-cvs@w3.org
Update of /sources/public/validator/htdocs/source
In directory hutz:/tmp/cvs-serv916
Modified Files:
index.html
Log Message:
documentation update and markup cleanup by Sierk Bornemann (port and update to HEAD)
Index: index.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /sources/public/validator/htdocs/source/index.html,v
retrieving revision 1.40
retrieving revision 1.41
diff -u -d -r1.40 -r1.41
--- index.html 31 Mar 2006 05:48:02 -0000 1.40
+++ index.html 31 Aug 2006 07:30:29 -0000 1.41
@@ -4,33 +4,31 @@
--><!--#set var="relroot" value="../"
--><!--#include virtual="../header.html" -->
<div class="doc">
-<h2>Source code availability<br />for the W3C Markup Validator</h2>
-<h3 id="TableOfContents">Table of Contents</h3>
+ <h2>Source code availability<br />for the W3C Markup Validator</h2>
+ <h3 id="TableOfContents">Table of Contents</h3>
- <div id="toc">
- <ul>
+ <div id="toc">
+ <ul>
<li><a href="#getting">Retrieving and browsing the Code</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#browse">Browsing the code</a></li>
<li><a href="#tarball">Download tarballs</a></li>
<li><a href="#rpm">Fedora/Red Hat RPM package</a></li>
- <li><a href="#suse">SuSE Linux (OSS) RPM package</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#suse">openSUSE/SUSE Linux RPM package</a></li>
<li><a href="#deb">Debian GNU/Linux package</a></li>
<li><a href="#CVS">CVS repository</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#using">Using the code</a></li>
- </ul>
- </div>
-
+ </ul>
+ </div>
+ <h3><a name="getting" id="getting"></a>Retrieving and browsing the Code</h3>
<h3><a name="getting" id="getting"></a>Retrieving and browsing the Code</h3>
<p><a id="skip" name="skip"></a>
- The source code for the <a
- href="../"><acronym title="World Wide Web Consortium">W3C</acronym>
- Markup Validation Service</a> is available under the
- terms of the <a
+ The source code for the <a href="../"><acronym title="World Wide Web Consortium">W3C</acronym>
+ Markup Validation Service</a> is available under the terms of the <a
href="http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/copyright-software"><acronym
title="World Wide Web Consortium">W3C</acronym>
Software License</a>. Source tarball of the latest production
@@ -40,6 +38,20 @@
</p>
<h4><a id="browse" name="browse"></a>Browsing the code</h4>
+ If you just want to glance at the code, or see its revision
+ history, you can
+ <a href="http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/validator/">browse it on
+ the web</a>.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The most interesting files are currently
+ <a href="http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/validator/httpd/cgi-bin/check">a
+ CGI script called "check"</a> that does pretty much everything,
+ and possibly also <a
+ href="http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/validator/httpd/conf/httpd.conf">the
+ httpd.conf configuration file snippet for Apache</a>.
+ Select the topmost revision numbers on these
+ pages to see the most recent revision of each file.
<p>
If you just want to glance at the code, or see its revision
history, you can
@@ -98,55 +110,60 @@
<a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/UsingExtras">documentation</a>
for information about configuring these tools.
</p>
- <h4><a id="suse" name="suse"></a>SuSE Linux (OSS) RPM package</h4>
+ <h4><a id="suse" name="suse"></a>openSUSE/SUSE Linux RPM package</h4>
<p>
- RPM packages for SuSE Linux (OSS) are available, courtesy of Sierk
+ openSUSE/SUSE Linux RPM packages are available, courtesy of Sierk
Bornemann, at sierkbornemann.de,
- <<a href="http://sierkbornemann.de/pub/tools/w3c-markup-validator/">http://sierkbornemann.de/pub/tools/w3c-markup-validator/</a>>.
+ <<a href="http://sierkbornemann.de/pub/tools/w3c-markup-validator/">http://sierkbornemann.de/pub/tools/w3c-markup-validator/</a>>.
+ Additionally, you can also get these packages from the new
+ <a href="http://software.opensuse.org/">software repository of the openSUSE build service</a> at
+ <<a href="http://software.opensuse.org/download/validators/">http://software.opensuse.org/download/validators/</a>>
+ or one of its mirrors.
</p>
<p>
- The RPM packages from sierkbornemann.de are optimized for use in
- a local network (recommended running in a VirtualHost) for home
+ The RPM packages, maintained by Sierk Bornemann, are optimized for use in
+ a local network (running in a VirtualHost is recommended) for home
office or web agency use.
</p>
<p>
Note that the Validator RPMs have several dependencies, you'll
have to satisfy at least the same <a href="#rpmdeps">RPM
dependencies</a> as listed above for Fedora/Red Hat.
- You can get these RPMs from SuSE (other dependencies are included
- in the SuSE Linux (OSS) distribution) or partly from
+ You can get these RPMs from openSUSE (other dependencies are included
+ in the openSUSE distribution) or partly from
sierkbornemann.de.
</p>
<p>
In addition, each of these may have further dependencies that must
be satisfied. All the necessary RPMs are either included in
- the SuSE Linux distribution(s) or are available from
- <a href="http://sierkbornemann.de/pub/tools/w3c-markup-validator/perl-modules/">sierkbornemann.de</a>.
+ the openSUSE distribution or are additionally available at
+ <a href="http://sierkbornemann.de/pub/tools/w3c-markup-validator/perl-modules/">sierkbornemann.de</a> or at
+ <<a href="http://software.opensuse.org/download/validators/">http://software.opensuse.org/download/validators/</a>>
+ or one of its mirrors.
Use of an automated package management tool to install the
- packages, such as YaST, yum or up2date is recommended.
+ packages, such as <em>YaST</em>, <em>rug</em>, <em>y2pmsh</em>, <em>smart</em>,
+ <em>apt4rpm</em> or <em>yum</em> is recommended.
+ See the openSUSE
+ <a href="http://en.opensuse.org/Category:Package_Management">documentation</a>
+ for information about configuring these tools.
</p>
<h4><a name="deb" id="deb"></a>Debian GNU/Linux package</h4>
<p>
A Debian package is available, courtesy of Frédéric
Schütz.
</p>
- <ul>
- <li>
- If you are using the Debian Testing or Unstable distribution, the
- package is already included in the offical archive and you can
- directly use the <kbd>apt-get</kbd> command if your
- /etc/apt/sources.list file is correctly configured.
- </li>
- <li>
- If you are using the stable (woody) Debian distribution, add the
- following line in the /etc/apt/sources.list file.
- <pre><kbd>deb http://www.mathgen.ch/debian/woody ./</kbd></pre>
- </li>
- </ul>
<p>
- Running the command <kbd>apt-get install w3c-markup-validator</kbd>
- as root will then install all the packages needed.
+ Starting with Debian 3.1 ("Sarge"), the package and all its
+ dependencies are included in the official Debian distribution, and
+ can be installed by running the command <kbd>apt-get install
+ w3c-markup-validator</kbd> as root.
</p>
+ <p>
+ Debian Sarge includes version 0.6.7 of the validator; the Debian
+ Testing and Unstable distributions usually include the latest
+ version.
+ </p>
+
<h4><a id="CVS" name="CVS"></a>CVS repository</h4>
<p>
@@ -166,23 +183,14 @@
bash$ <kbd>cvs login</kbd>
(Logging in to anonymous@dev.w3.org)
CVS password: <kbd>anonymous</kbd>
- bash$ <kbd>cvs get -r validator-0_7_1-release validator</kbd>
+ bash$ <kbd>cvs get -r validator-0_8_0-release validator</kbd>
cvs server: Updating validator
cvs server: Updating validator/htdocs
U validator/htdocs/about.html
...
</pre>
- <p>
- This will get you the last release version. use <kbd>cvs get validator</kbd>
- to retrieve the <code>HEAD</code>. Be aware that constant development is made
- on this latest version, and
- the trunk is more or less guaranteed to be in a state of greater
- or lesser breakage at any given point in time. <em>Approach with
- caution!</em>
- </p>
<h3><a id="using" name="using"></a>Using the code</h3>
-
<p>
The purpose of making the source code available is partly to allow
others to set up mirrors of the service (either publicly or within
@@ -190,8 +198,7 @@
on making the service better! If you are interested in helping with
the development, we suggest you first <a href="../docs/install.html">install</a>
the code and <a href="../docs/devel.html">read our instructions for developers</a>.
- </p>
-
+ </p>
</div>
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