From 9c173f754cf4239a9a0f0eec1fa0b52926636499 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: John Resig Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 21:20:38 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Updated the README to be more explanatory. --- README | 19 +++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/README b/README index ae65e4b2..cb936483 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -4,9 +4,24 @@ jQuery - New Wave Javascript http://jquery.com/ -------------------------------- -How to build your own jQuery: +What you need to build your own jQuery: - Make sure that you have Java installed. - - And some common UNIX commands (like 'make', 'mkdir', 'rm', 'cat', and 'echo') + + If not, go to this page and download "Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 5.0" + http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp + + - You now have two options for building jQuery, if you have access to + common UNIX commands (like 'make', 'mkdir', 'rm', 'cat', and 'echo') + then simply type 'make' to build all the components. + + - The other option is if you have Ant installed (or are on Windows and + don't have access to make). You can download Ant from here: + http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi + + If you do have Ant, everytime (in this README) that I say 'make', do + 'ant' instead - it works identically (for all intents and purposes). + +How to build your own jQuery: In the main directory of the distribution (the one that this file is in), type the following to make all versions of jQuery, the documentation, and the test suite: