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libs/network/doc/getting_started.rst

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All stable versions of :mod:`cpp-netlib` can be downloaded from
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Github_. Each release is available as gzipped (Using the command
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Github_ from this url:
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http://github.com/cpp-netlib/cpp-netlib/downloads
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Each release is available as gzipped (Using the command
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``tar xzf cpp-netlib.tar.gz``) or bzipped (Using ``tar xjf
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cpp-netlib.tar.bz2``) tarball, or as a zipfile (``unzip
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cpp-netlib.zip``, or on Windows using a tool such as 7zip_).
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.. note:: If you look at the Git repository closely, this is the repository of
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*mikhailberis* instead of *cpp-netlib*. The reason is that the main developer
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and maintainer of the project is Dean Michael Berris, who goes by the alias
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*mikhailberis* on the Internet.
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Dean does the merging and maintenance of the whole library, similar to how
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`Linus Torvalds`_ of the Linux project acts as the gatekeeper of the project.
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.. _`Linus Torvalds`: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds
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Windows users need to use msysGit_, and to invoke the command above
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Building on Linux
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On Linux, this will generate the appropriate Makefiles that will enable you to
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build and run the tests and examples that come with :mod:`cpp-netlib`. To build
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the tests, you can run ``make`` in the same top-level directory of

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