From 8f575f03982b3f9c7b536f178639328ad2e9a02d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vadim Zeitlin Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2018 21:05:30 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Make the warning about GitHub archives even more prominent The existing warning came too late to be effective, so put it in front to (hopefully) really ensure that people avoid getting the wrong files. --- docs/release.md | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/release.md b/docs/release.md index 2e7393c662..5f43994e41 100644 --- a/docs/release.md +++ b/docs/release.md @@ -9,7 +9,9 @@ Please see [**README**](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/v3 ## Source Files and Documentation -If you intend to build wxWidgets from sources (which is recommended), please download `wxWidgets-3.1.1-rc` archive in either [ZIP](https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/releases/download/v3.1.1-rc/wxWidgets-3.1.1-rc.zip) or [7z](https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/releases/download/v3.1.1-rc/wxWidgets-3.1.1-rc.7z), for much smaller size, format for Microsoft Windows systems or the [compressed tarball](https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/releases/download/v3.1.1-rc/wxWidgets-3.1.1-rc.tar.bz2) for Unix ones, including macOS. These archives have exactly the same contents, but use the line endings appropriate for the corresponding platform. Be sure to _not_ download the files available from the "Source code" links above, which are automatically generated by GitHub and don't contain the submodules sources which are necessary for building wxWidgets. +If you intend to build wxWidgets from sources (which is recommended), please do **NOT** download the files using the "Source code" links just above, which are automatically generated by GitHub and don't contain the submodules sources which are necessary for building wxWidgets. + +Instead, download one of [wxWidgets-3.1.1-rc.zip](https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/releases/download/v3.1.1-rc/wxWidgets-3.1.1-rc.zip) or [wxWidgets-3.1.1-rc.7z](https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/releases/download/v3.1.1-rc/wxWidgets-3.1.1-rc.7z), for much smaller size, for Microsoft Windows systems or [wxWidgets-3.1.1-rc.tar.bz2](https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/releases/download/v3.1.1-rc/wxWidgets-3.1.1-rc.tar.bz2) for Unix ones, including macOS. These archives have exactly the same contents, but use the line endings appropriate for the corresponding platform. In addition, we provide archives containing the documentation in either HTML or Microsoft CHM formats. Notice that the documentation is also [available online](http://docs.wxwidgets.org/3.1).