User's Guide updates. (Robert P. J. Day)

7 files changed, 46 insertions, 18 deletions

diff --git a/doc/user/build-install.in b/doc/user/build-install.in
index 547154c..e473e37 100644
--- a/doc/user/build-install.in
+++ b/doc/user/build-install.in
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@
     If you need to install Python and have a choice,
     we recommend using the most recent Python 2.5 version available.
     Python 2.5 has significant improvements
-    the help speed up the performance of &SCons;'.
+    the help speed up the performance of &SCons;.
 
     </para>
 
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@
     &SCons; comes pre-packaged for installation on a number of systems,
     including Linux and Windows systems.
     You do not need to read this entire section,
-    you should only need to read the section
+    you should need to read only the section
     appropriate to the type of system you're running on.
 
     </para>
@@ -162,11 +162,11 @@
 
       &SCons; comes in RPM (Red Hat Package Manager) format,
       pre-built and ready to install on Red Hat Linux,
-      Fedora Core,
+      Fedora,
       or any other Linux distribution that uses RPM.
       Your distribution may
       already have an &SCons; RPM built specifically for it;
-      many do, including SuSe, Mandrake and Fedora.
+      many do, including SUSE, Mandrake and Fedora.
       You can check for the availability of an &SCons; RPM
       on your distribution's download servers,
       or by consulting an RPM search site like
@@ -177,6 +177,18 @@
 
       <para>
 
+      If your distribution supports installation via
+      <application>yum</application>,
+      you should be able to install &SCons; by running:
+
+      </para>
+
+      <screen>
+        # <userinput>yum install scons</userinput>
+      </screen>
+
+      <para>
+
       If your Linux distribution does not already have
       a specific &SCons; RPM file,
       you can download and install from the
@@ -197,7 +209,7 @@
       </para>
 
       <screen>
-        # <userinput>rpm -Uvh scons-0.96-1.noarch.rpm</userinput>
+        # <userinput>rpm -Uvh scons-__VERSION__-1.noarch.rpm</userinput>
       </screen>
 
       <para>
@@ -260,9 +272,9 @@
 
       &SCons; provides a Windows installer
       that makes installation extremely easy.
-      Download the <filename>scons-0.95.win32.exe</filename>
+      Download the <filename>scons-__VERSION__.win32.exe</filename>
       file from the &SCons; download page at
-      <ulink url="http://www.scons.org/download.html">http://www.scons.org/download.html</ulink>.
+      <ulink url="http://www.scons.org/download.php">http://www.scons.org/download.php</ulink>.
       Then all you need to do is execute the file
       (usually by clicking on its icon in Windows Explorer).
       These will take you through a small
diff --git a/doc/user/build-install.xml b/doc/user/build-install.xml
index 547154c..e473e37 100644
--- a/doc/user/build-install.xml
+++ b/doc/user/build-install.xml
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@
     If you need to install Python and have a choice,
     we recommend using the most recent Python 2.5 version available.
     Python 2.5 has significant improvements
-    the help speed up the performance of &SCons;'.
+    the help speed up the performance of &SCons;.
 
     </para>
 
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@
     &SCons; comes pre-packaged for installation on a number of systems,
     including Linux and Windows systems.
     You do not need to read this entire section,
-    you should only need to read the section
+    you should need to read only the section
     appropriate to the type of system you're running on.
 
     </para>
@@ -162,11 +162,11 @@
 
       &SCons; comes in RPM (Red Hat Package Manager) format,
       pre-built and ready to install on Red Hat Linux,
-      Fedora Core,
+      Fedora,
       or any other Linux distribution that uses RPM.
       Your distribution may
       already have an &SCons; RPM built specifically for it;
-      many do, including SuSe, Mandrake and Fedora.
+      many do, including SUSE, Mandrake and Fedora.
       You can check for the availability of an &SCons; RPM
       on your distribution's download servers,
       or by consulting an RPM search site like
@@ -177,6 +177,18 @@
 
       <para>
 
+      If your distribution supports installation via
+      <application>yum</application>,
+      you should be able to install &SCons; by running:
+
+      </para>
+
+      <screen>
+        # <userinput>yum install scons</userinput>
+      </screen>
+
+      <para>
+
       If your Linux distribution does not already have
       a specific &SCons; RPM file,
       you can download and install from the
@@ -197,7 +209,7 @@
       </para>
 
       <screen>
-        # <userinput>rpm -Uvh scons-0.96-1.noarch.rpm</userinput>
+        # <userinput>rpm -Uvh scons-__VERSION__-1.noarch.rpm</userinput>
       </screen>
 
       <para>
@@ -260,9 +272,9 @@
 
       &SCons; provides a Windows installer
       that makes installation extremely easy.
-      Download the <filename>scons-0.95.win32.exe</filename>
+      Download the <filename>scons-__VERSION__.win32.exe</filename>
       file from the &SCons; download page at
-      <ulink url="http://www.scons.org/download.html">http://www.scons.org/download.html</ulink>.
+      <ulink url="http://www.scons.org/download.php">http://www.scons.org/download.php</ulink>.
       Then all you need to do is execute the file
       (usually by clicking on its icon in Windows Explorer).
       These will take you through a small
diff --git a/doc/user/preface.in b/doc/user/preface.in
index 8fed593..a76fa1c 100644
--- a/doc/user/preface.in
+++ b/doc/user/preface.in
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@
   than the cryptic languages of other build tools,
   which are usually invented by programmers for other programmers.
   This is in no small part due to the
-  consistency and readability that are built in to Python.
+  consistency and readability that are hallmarks of Python.
   It just so happens that making a real, live
   scripting language the basis for the
   configuration files
diff --git a/doc/user/preface.xml b/doc/user/preface.xml
index f93ec5e..6f3140b 100644
--- a/doc/user/preface.xml
+++ b/doc/user/preface.xml
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@
   than the cryptic languages of other build tools,
   which are usually invented by programmers for other programmers.
   This is in no small part due to the
-  consistency and readability that are built in to Python.
+  consistency and readability that are hallmarks of Python.
   It just so happens that making a real, live
   scripting language the basis for the
   configuration files
diff --git a/doc/user/simple.in b/doc/user/simple.in
index 3382f86..9594501 100644
--- a/doc/user/simple.in
+++ b/doc/user/simple.in
@@ -396,7 +396,7 @@
      <para>
 
      &SCons; reflects this distinction between
-     <emphasis>calling a builder method like</emphasis> &b-Program;>
+     <emphasis>calling a builder method like</emphasis> &b-Program;
      and <emphasis>actually building the program</emphasis>
      by printing the status messages that indicate
      when it's "just reading" the &SConstruct; file,
diff --git a/doc/user/simple.xml b/doc/user/simple.xml
index 8245237..6bd70b0 100644
--- a/doc/user/simple.xml
+++ b/doc/user/simple.xml
@@ -419,7 +419,7 @@
      <para>
 
      &SCons; reflects this distinction between
-     <emphasis>calling a builder method like</emphasis> &b-Program;>
+     <emphasis>calling a builder method like</emphasis> &b-Program;
      and <emphasis>actually building the program</emphasis>
      by printing the status messages that indicate
      when it's "just reading" the &SConstruct; file,
diff --git a/src/CHANGES.txt b/src/CHANGES.txt
index aa4543e..85b3fde 100644
--- a/src/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/src/CHANGES.txt
@@ -20,6 +20,10 @@ RELEASE X.X.X - XXX
     - Detect implicit dependencies on commands even when the command is
       quoted.
 
+  From Robert P. J. Day:
+
+    - User's Guide updates.
+
 
 
 RELEASE 1.2.0.d20090113 - Tue, 13 Jan 2009 02:50:30 -0800