From c9c5b72738a731700c57600fea4890c834e3b8a1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Anthony Fok Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2015 13:42:15 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Update README.md and overview/installing.md - Clarify that Hugo may be built wherever Go is available; - Add links to Git, Mercurial and Go; - Unlist Bazaar: No libraries that Hugo depends on use it any more; - Suggest the user to simply run `make` to build `hugo` to get `hugo version` to display the commit hash. --- content/overview/installing.md | 18 +++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/overview/installing.md b/content/overview/installing.md index 0c9b69676..e74e69900 100644 --- a/content/overview/installing.md +++ b/content/overview/installing.md @@ -11,15 +11,18 @@ title: Installing Hugo weight: 20 --- -Hugo is written in Go with support for multiple platforms. +Hugo is written in [Go][] with support for multiple platforms. The latest release can be found at [Hugo Releases](https://github.com/spf13/hugo/releases). -We currently build for  Windows, +We currently provide pre-built binaries for + Windows,  Linux,  FreeBSD and  OS X for x64 and i386 architectures. +Hugo may also be compiled from source wherever the Go compiler tool chain can run, e.g. for ARM architecture and for other operating systems including DragonFly BSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Plan 9 and Solaris. See http://golang.org/doc/install/source for the full set of supported combinations of target operating systems and compilation architectures. + ## Installing Hugo (binary) Installation is very easy. Simply download the appropriate version for your @@ -49,12 +52,11 @@ placed in your `PATH`. ## Installing from source -### Dependencies +### Prerequisite tools for downloading and building source code -* Git -* Go 1.1+ (Go 1.4+ on Windows, see Go [Issue #8090](https://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=8090)) -* Mercurial -* Bazaar +* [Git](http://git-scm.com/) +* [Mercurial](http://mercurial.selenic.com/) +* [Go][] 1.3+ (Go 1.4+ on Windows, see Go [Issue #8090](https://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=8090)) ### Get directly from GitHub @@ -73,3 +75,5 @@ You may run `go get` with the `-u` option to update Hugo's dependencies: ## Contributing Please see the [contributing guide](/doc/contributing/). + +[Go]: http://golang.org/