[geany/geany] 24c8d4: README: Further improve installation instructions

[Enrico Tröger]

Branch:      refs/heads/master
Author:      Enrico Tröger <enrico.troeger at uvena.de>
Committer:   Colomban Wendling <ban at herbesfolles.org>
Date:        Mon, 27 Jun 2016 14:10:57 UTC
Commit:      24c8d4c3ebf8086a209ec6820a7b51a5dcb70d00
             https://github.com/geany/geany/commit/24c8d4c3ebf8086a209ec6820a7b51a5dcb70d00

Log Message:
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README: Further improve installation instructions


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    README

Modified: README
41 lines changed, 27 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
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@@ -28,8 +28,27 @@ The basic features of Geany are:
 - extensibility through plugins
 
 
+Installation from distribution packages
+---------------------------------------
+Using distribution packages on Linux, BSD and similar distributions
+is the easiest and recommended way. This way you will also benefit
+from automatic Geany updates by the package manager of the distribution.
+
+Packages are available for most distributions including Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu
+and many more.
+
+
+Installation on Mac OSX and Windows
+-----------------------------------
+Prebuilt binary packages for Mac OSX and Windows can be found on
+http://www.geany.org
+
+
+Installation from sources
+-------------------------
+
 Requirements
-------------
+++++++++++++
 For compiling Geany yourself, you will need the GTK2 (>= 2.24) or
 GTK3 libraries and header files. You will also need its dependency libraries
 and header files, such as Pango, Glib and ATK. All these files are
@@ -40,9 +59,6 @@ compiler is also needed for the required Scintilla library included. The
 GNU versions of these tools are recommended.
 
 
-Installation
-------------
-
 To build the user manual you need *rst2html* from Docutils. A pre-built
 version of the manual is available in distribution tarballs and will be used as
 fallback if *rst2html* is missing. When building from Git however, that
@@ -52,6 +68,13 @@ You can explicitly disable building the user manual using the
 installing a local version of the user manual, and Geany will then try
 and open the online version instead when requested.
 
+
+.. note::
+    Building Geany from source on Mac OSX and Windows is more complicated
+    and is out of scope of this document. For more information on
+    building instructions for these platforms, please check the wiki
+    at http://wiki.geany.org/howtos/.
+
 Installing from a Git clone
 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 
@@ -96,16 +119,6 @@ The most important option probably is ``-c`` or ``--config``, where you can
 specify an alternate configuration directory.
 
 
-Windows
--------
-Geany runs also under Windows. To download the binary with all necessary
-files, visit Geany's homepage. However, the Windows version has a few
-limitations:
-
-- embedded terminal emulation (VTE) is missing
-- Windows Vista or newer is required
-
-
 License
 -------
 Geany is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License



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