Bunch of updates

author: bwarsaw 2000-11-14 05:46:26 +0000
committer: bwarsaw 2000-11-14 05:46:26 +0000
commit: bc61acb2306d404fbd0fdcee8e146ce40e8daedd (patch)
tree: 720a2759ef4631f02109a3dc3dfe6f6124f7f5a6 /admin
parent: 7a691b0aefe4452585971e12fa545b46afa37205 (diff)
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25 files changed, 114 insertions, 29 deletions
diff --git a/admin/www/admins.html b/admin/www/admins.html
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diff --git a/admin/www/bugs.html b/admin/www/bugs.html
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diff --git a/admin/www/devs.html b/admin/www/devs.html
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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
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@@ -167,7 +167,18 @@ Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 <TD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="90%"><BR>
 <h3>Developer Documentation</h3>
 
-Coming soon, all the gory details...
+If you're the kind of person who loves to hack on the nitty gritty,
+you can start by <a href="admins.html">looking at</a> the
+<code>bin/withlist</code> script.  With this script you can directly
+examine and manipulate list object attributes.
+
+<p>Coming soon, all the rest of the gory details...
+
+<h3>SourceForge project</h3>
+
+Developers should start with the
+<a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/mailman">Mailman project at
+SourceForge</a>.
 
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diff --git a/admin/www/download.ht b/admin/www/download.ht
index c8acd0432..9fa1f6bf3 100644
--- a/admin/www/download.ht
+++ b/admin/www/download.ht
@@ -16,8 +16,11 @@ Other-links:
 <h3>Requirements</h3>
 
 <p>Mailman currently runs only on Unix-y systems, such as Linux,
-Solaris, *BSD, etc.  It does not run on Windows or MacOS (but does
-work on MacOSX).
+Solaris, *BSD, etc.  It should work on MacOSX but not earlier versions
+of MacOS.  It probably does not work on Windows, although it's
+possible you could get it running on a Cygwin system (please
+<a href="mailto:mailman-developers@python.org">let the developer
+community know</a> if you have success with this!)
 
 <p>
 Before you can run Mailman, you need to make sure that
@@ -27,6 +30,7 @@ and Python 2.0.  Most Linux systems come with Python pre-installed, so
 you just need to make sure you're running an up-to-date version.  You
 can do this by executing the following at your shell's command line:
 
+<blockquote>
 <pre>
 % python
 Python 2.0 (#128, Oct 18 2000, 04:48:44) 
@@ -34,6 +38,7 @@ Python 2.0 (#128, Oct 18 2000, 04:48:44)
 Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>> ^D
 </pre>
+</blockquote>
 
 <p>You will also need an SMTP server (a.k.a. mail transport agent or
 <em>MTA</em>) for mail delivery and reception.
@@ -70,3 +75,26 @@ is the current GNU release.  It is available from the following mirror sites:
     <li><a href="http://www.list.org/mailman.tar.gz">From List.Org</a>
     <li><a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=103">From SourceForge</a>
 </ul>
+
+<em>If you're using a command line FTP client, be sure to set the mode
+to binary</em>.  Once you've downloaded the source tarball, you can
+unpack it with the following commands:
+
+<blockquote>
+<pre>
+% cd /usr/local/src
+% tar zxf mailman.tar.gz
+</pre>
+</blockquote>
+
+Mailman's tarball unpacks into a directory called
+<code>mailman-xyz</code> where <em>xyz</em> is the version number.
+Note also that some versions of <code>tar</code> don't accept the
+<em>z</em> option.  In that case, you'll need to use the
+<code>gunzip</code> program like so:
+
+<blockquote>
+<pre>
+% gunzip -c mailman.tar.gz | tar xf -
+</pre>
+</blockquote>
diff --git a/admin/www/download.html b/admin/www/download.html
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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
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@@ -188,8 +188,11 @@ Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 <h3>Requirements</h3>
 
 <p>Mailman currently runs only on Unix-y systems, such as Linux,
-Solaris, *BSD, etc.  It does not run on Windows or MacOS (but does
-work on MacOSX).
+Solaris, *BSD, etc.  It should work on MacOSX but not earlier versions
+of MacOS.  It probably does not work on Windows, although it's
+possible you could get it running on a Cygwin system (please
+<a href="mailto:mailman-developers@python.org">let the developer
+community know</a> if you have success with this!)
 
 <p>
 Before you can run Mailman, you need to make sure that
@@ -199,6 +202,7 @@ and Python 2.0.  Most Linux systems come with Python pre-installed, so
 you just need to make sure you're running an up-to-date version.  You
 can do this by executing the following at your shell's command line:
 
+<blockquote>
 <pre>
 % python
 Python 2.0 (#128, Oct 18 2000, 04:48:44) 
@@ -206,6 +210,7 @@ Python 2.0 (#128, Oct 18 2000, 04:48:44)
 Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>> ^D
 </pre>
+</blockquote>
 
 <p>You will also need an SMTP server (a.k.a. mail transport agent or
 <em>MTA</em>) for mail delivery and reception.
@@ -243,6 +248,29 @@ is the current GNU release.  It is available from the following mirror sites:
     <li><a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=103">From SourceForge</a>
 </ul>
 
+<em>If you're using a command line FTP client, be sure to set the mode
+to binary</em>.  Once you've downloaded the source tarball, you can
+unpack it with the following commands:
+
+<blockquote>
+<pre>
+% cd /usr/local/src
+% tar zxf mailman.tar.gz
+</pre>
+</blockquote>
+
+Mailman's tarball unpacks into a directory called
+<code>mailman-xyz</code> where <em>xyz</em> is the version number.
+Note also that some versions of <code>tar</code> don't accept the
+<em>z</em> option.  In that case, you'll need to use the
+<code>gunzip</code> program like so:
+
+<blockquote>
+<pre>
+% gunzip -c mailman.tar.gz | tar xf -
+</pre>
+</blockquote>
+
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diff --git a/admin/www/faq.html b/admin/www/faq.html
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diff --git a/admin/www/features.html b/admin/www/features.html
index 92144b90d..389752931 100644
--- a/admin/www/features.html
+++ b/admin/www/features.html
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
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diff --git a/admin/www/index.ht b/admin/www/index.ht
index 2da27234b..171613db9 100644
--- a/admin/www/index.ht
+++ b/admin/www/index.ht
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ P. Lindsey, Chris Kolar, J C Lawrence, Jeremy Hylton, Nigel
 Metheringham, Dan Mick, Jim Tittsler, Ricardo Kustner, Bernhard
 Reiter, Thomas Wouters, Jeff Berliner, Ted Cabeen, Michael Yount, Ron
 Jarrell, Chris Snell, David Champion, Darrell Fuhriman, Owen Taylor,
-Fil, Noam Zeilberger, Mark MERLIN, John A. Martin
+Fil, Noam Zeilberger, Mark MERLIN, John A. Martin, Erik Forsberg
 <em>We have a extensive wish list and welcome anyone else who would
 like to contribute!</em>
 
diff --git a/admin/www/index.html b/admin/www/index.html
index 6b2ae94b3..85f8a07a1 100644
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@@ -228,7 +228,7 @@ P. Lindsey, Chris Kolar, J C Lawrence, Jeremy Hylton, Nigel
 Metheringham, Dan Mick, Jim Tittsler, Ricardo Kustner, Bernhard
 Reiter, Thomas Wouters, Jeff Berliner, Ted Cabeen, Michael Yount, Ron
 Jarrell, Chris Snell, David Champion, Darrell Fuhriman, Owen Taylor,
-Fil, Noam Zeilberger, Mark MERLIN, John A. Martin
+Fil, Noam Zeilberger, Mark MERLIN, John A. Martin, Erik Forsberg
 <em>We have a extensive wish list and welcome anyone else who would
 like to contribute!</em>
 
diff --git a/admin/www/install-check.html b/admin/www/install-check.html
index 9c462e003..771cd4201 100644
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diff --git a/admin/www/install-config.ht b/admin/www/install-config.ht
index c5e4cd5ee..16e13a0ff 100644
--- a/admin/www/install-config.ht
+++ b/admin/www/install-config.ht
@@ -30,6 +30,15 @@ Links: links.h install-links.h
 </pre>
 </blockquote>
 
+If you need to run configure with some options, you can do it like
+this:
+
+<blockquote>
+<pre>
+% ./configure --with-mail-gid=mail --with-cgi-gid=nobody
+</pre>
+</blockquote>
+
 <h3>Configure options</h3>
 
     The following options allow you to customize your Mailman
diff --git a/admin/www/install-config.html b/admin/www/install-config.html
index ad675a02e..4e50d1464 100644
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@@ -206,6 +206,15 @@ Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 </pre>
 </blockquote>
 
+If you need to run configure with some options, you can do it like
+this:
+
+<blockquote>
+<pre>
+% ./configure --with-mail-gid=mail --with-cgi-gid=nobody
+</pre>
+</blockquote>
+
 <h3>Configure options</h3>
 
     The following options allow you to customize your Mailman
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author	bwarsaw	2000-11-14 05:46:26 +0000
committer	bwarsaw	2000-11-14 05:46:26 +0000
commit	bc61acb2306d404fbd0fdcee8e146ce40e8daedd (patch)
tree	720a2759ef4631f02109a3dc3dfe6f6124f7f5a6 /admin
parent	7a691b0aefe4452585971e12fa545b46afa37205 (diff)
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