From 127e48f1c0e78052e191bc106f323c68e5296796 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mark Harrah Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 17:31:47 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] README updates --- README.md | 13 ++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index b26f8695a..72f1a66c8 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,10 +1,15 @@ +This is the 0.9.x development series of sbt. The current stable release of sbt is 0.7.4, which can be downloaded from the [http://code.google.com/p/simple-build-tool](Google Code project). + See for setup instructions for the stable version of sbt. -To build from source, get the latest stable version of sbt (above) and get the code: +To build from source, get the latest stable version of sbt (above) and get the code. - $ git clone git://github.com/harrah/xsbt.git + $ git clone -n git://github.com/harrah/xsbt.git $ cd xsbt +The '-n' option is strictly only necessary when using msysgit on Windows. +(This works around an issue with spaces in the 'master' branch by not checking the 'master' branch out initially.) + The latest tag for 0.9.x is 0.9.2: $ git checkout v0.9.2 @@ -23,4 +28,6 @@ Copy your stable ~/bin/sbt script to ~/bin/xsbt and change it to use the launche If using the 0.9 development branch, the launcher is at: - /target/sbt-launch-0.9.3-SNAPSHOT.jar \ No newline at end of file + /target/sbt-launch-0.9.3-SNAPSHOT.jar + +There is a [video of a demo](http://vimeo.com/20263617) given at the [Northeast Scala Symposium](http://www.nescala.org/2011/) that gives a brief introduction to ideas in sbt 0.9. Note that the demo was based on 0.9.0 and some things have changed since then. See the [documentation](https://github.com/harrah/xsbt/wiki) for current information. \ No newline at end of file