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author | michelou <michelou@epfl.ch> | 2006-03-18 22:31:47 +0000 |
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committer | michelou <michelou@epfl.ch> | 2006-03-18 22:31:47 +0000 |
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diff --git a/docs/README b/docs/README index 26b4db9cdd..f239cc3395 100644 --- a/docs/README +++ b/docs/README @@ -2,8 +2,9 @@ Scala Software Distributions ---------------------------- -- scala-YYYYMMDD-hhmmss.tar.gz Unix distribution -- scala-YYYYMMDD-hhmmss.zip Windows distribution +- scala-<major>.<minor>.<patch>.tar.bz2 Unis distribution +- scala-<major>.<minor>.<patch>.tar.gz Unix distribution +- scala-<major>.<minor>.<patch>.zip Windows distribution The standard distributions require Java 1.4.x or above. If you don't know which version of Java you have, run the command "java -version". @@ -15,48 +16,47 @@ Scala Tools - scalac Scala compiler - scaladoc Scala API documentation generator - scalaint Scala interactive interpreter -- scalarun Scala interpreter -- scalap Scala profiler +- scalap Scala classfile decoder Run the command "scalac -help" to display the list of available compiler options. -NB. socos, siris and surus are deprecated commands starting from -version 20030811-115735 of the Scala distribution, please use -respectively scalac, scalaint and scalarun instead. - Install on Unix --------------- Untar the archive. All Scala tools are located in the directory "bin". +Adding that directory to the PATH variable will make the Scala commands +directly accessible. + +You may test the distribution by running the following commands: -You may test the distribution by running the script "scala-test" -located in the subdirectory "share/scala/test/bin". +$ ./bin/scalac share/doc/scala/examples/sort.scala +$ ./bin/scala examples.sort +[6,2,8,5,1] +[1,2,5,6,8] +$ ./bin/scalaint +scala> examples.sort.main(null) +[6,2,8,5,1] +[1,2,5,6,8] +scala>:quit +$ Install on Windows ------------------ -Unzip the archive. All Scala tools are located in the "bin" -directory. Before running any of these tools, you must define the -environment variable SCALA_HOME to point to the home directory of the -scala distribution. +Unzip the archive. All Scala tools are located in the "bin" directory. +Adding that directory to the PATH variable will make the Scala commands +directly accessible. -On Windows 95/98/Me, this can be done by adding the following command -to your AUTOEXEC.BAT file and then rebooting your machine. +On Windows 95/98/Me, you must define the environment variable SCALA_HOME +to point to the home directory of the Scala distribution to run any of +these tools. This can be done by adding the following command to your +AUTOEXEC.BAT file and then rebooting your machine. set SCALA_HOME=<install-directory>\scala-YYYYMMDD-hhmmss -On Windows NT/2000/XP, open the "Control Panel", open the "System" -applet, select the "Advanced" tab, click on "Environment Variables", -click on "New..." in the user variable section and enter the following -informations: - -Variable Name : SCALA_HOME -Variable Value: <install-directory>\scala-YYYYMMDD-hhmmss - -If you have Administrator privileges, you may install the tools for -all users of your machine by creating a new system variable instead of -a new user variable. +On Windows NT/2000/XP, you do not need to define any variable in order +for the Scala commands to run correctly. |