diff --git a/packaging/README-snapshots.txt b/packaging/README-snapshots.txt index ddabcced..479391e2 100644 --- a/packaging/README-snapshots.txt +++ b/packaging/README-snapshots.txt @@ -9,6 +9,12 @@ versions of Python. The source tarball can be used to build wxPython Phoenix for other platforms. See Phoenix/README.rst in the source tarball for more information. +If you are wanting to install an official release build of wxPython this is +not the place to be. You should go to PyPI instead, or use pip with the +default server address. + + https://pypi.python.org/pypi/wxPython + File naming conventions: ------------------------ @@ -21,20 +27,20 @@ File naming conventions: - The "*-docs-*.tar.gz" files are compressed archives of the documentation. - - The bulk of the filename follows the convensions for naming wheels + - The bulk of the filename follows the conventions for naming wheels (https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0427/#file-name-convention). For example: - wxPython_Phoenix-3.0.3.dev1549+fa6f31f-cp33-cp33m-macosx_10_6_intel.whl + wxPython-4.0.0a2.dev2973+5ff6be7-cp35-cp35m-macosx_10_6_intel.whl means: - - This is the wxPython_Phoenix package + - This is the "wxPython" package - - It is version 3.0.3.dev1549+fa6f31f (a development version, with + - It is version 4.0.0a2.dev2973+5ff6be7 (a development version, with the build number derived from the source control system.) - - It is built for CPython version 3.3 + - It is built for CPython version 3.5 - It is built for the macosx operating system @@ -59,12 +65,12 @@ this: pip install -U --pre \ -f https://wxpython.org/Phoenix/snapshot-builds/ \ - wxPython_Phoenix + wxPython NOTE: if there isn't a binary here for the latest version of Phoenix that matches your Python version, then the command above will download the latest version of the source and will try to build Phoenix for -you. This will not be successfull if you do not have appropriate +you. This will not be successful if you do not have appropriate development tools and dependent libraries installed. To install a specific binary from this site you can append the version @@ -72,7 +78,7 @@ number to the command, like this: pip install -U --pre \ -f https://wxpython.org/Phoenix/snapshot-builds/ \ - wxPython_Phoenix==3.0.3.dev1641+76cf834 + wxPython==4.0.0a2.dev2973+5ff6be7 There are also snapshot builds available for a few of the common Linux distributions, located under the following folder: @@ -92,7 +98,7 @@ you can use a pip command like this: pip install -U --pre \ -f https://wxpython.org/Phoenix/snapshot-builds/linux/gtk3/ubuntu-16.04 \ - wxPython_Phoenix + wxPython Getting Pip