@@ -8,7 +8,11 @@ Downloading an official release
88===============================
99
1010All stable versions of:mod: `cpp-netlib ` can be downloaded from
11- Github _. Each release is available as gzipped (Using the command
11+ Github _ from this url:
12+
13+ http://github.com/cpp-netlib/cpp-netlib/downloads
14+
15+ Each release is available as gzipped (Using the command
1216``tar xzf cpp-netlib.tar.gz ``) or bzipped (Using ``tar xjf
1317cpp-netlib.tar.bz2 ``) tarball, or as a zipfile (``unzip
1418cpp-netlib.zip ``, or on Windows using a tool such as7zip _).
@@ -32,6 +36,16 @@ This should be enough information get to started. To do more complex
3236things with Git, such as pulling changes or checking out a new branch,
3337refer to the `Git documentation `_.
3438
39+ ..note ::If you look at the Git repository closely, this is the repository of
40+ *mikhailberis * instead of *cpp-netlib *. The reason is that the main developer
41+ and maintainer of the project is Dean Michael Berris, who goes by the alias
42+ *mikhailberis * on the Internet.
43+
44+ Dean does the merging and maintenance of the whole library, similar to how
45+ `Linus Torvalds `_ of the Linux project acts as the gatekeeper of the project.
46+
47+ .. _`Linus Torvalds` :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds
48+
3549Windows users need to usemsysGit _, and to invoke the command above
3650from a shell.
3751
@@ -106,6 +120,9 @@ additional parameters::
106120 > -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=g++ \
107121 > .
108122
123+ Building on Linux
124+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
125+
109126On Linux, this will generate the appropriate Makefiles that will enable you to
110127build and run the tests and examples that come with:mod: `cpp-netlib `. To build
111128the tests, you can run ``make `` in the same top-level directory of