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@@ -1,12 +1,16 @@ +================================================================================ README for inxi - a command line system information tool +================================================================================ +FILE: README.txt +VERSION: 6.0 +DATE: 2024-01-14 The new faster, more powerful Perl inxi is here! File all issue reports with the -master branch. All support for versions prior to 3.0 is now ended, sorry. +master branch. All support for versions prior to 3.0 is ended. Make sure to update to the current inxi from the master branch before filing any -issue reports. The code in pre 2.9 versions literally no longer exists in inxi -3. Bugs from earlier versions cannot usually be solved in the new version since -the pre 2.9 and the 2.9 and later versions are completely different internally. +issue reports. Bugs from earlier versions cannot usually be solved in the new +version since too much changes intnernally release to release. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CODEBERG SOURCE REPO @@ -22,13 +26,14 @@ inxi-perl > https://codeberg.org/smxi/pinxi master master > https://codeberg.org/smxi/inxi master tarballs > https://codeberg.org/smxi/inxi-tarballs master -inxi-perl has been rebuilt and now only contains the pinxi, pinxi.1 files, plus -a minimal README.txt for github users. docs and tarballs have been deleted. The -inxi-perl branch should not be used, and exists only so that current pinxi users -can update from there to get the new version with new URLs. +inxi-perl branch has been rebuilt and now only contains the pinxi, pinxi.1 +files, plus a minimal README.txt for github users. docs and tarballs have been +deleted. The inxi-perl branch should not be used, and exists only so that +current pinxi users can update from there to get the new version with new URLs. -inxi master and inxi-perl/pinxi will be mirrored until late 2023, then they will -no longer get updates. +inxi master will be mirrored to github until most packagers have switched to +using codeberg. inxi-perl/pinxi no longer gets updates, and exists only to let +users update to a version with the new self updater codeberg URLs. The inxi repo only contains master, plus the one, two branches, which are obsolete. @@ -56,7 +61,7 @@ Help support the project with a one time or a sustaining donation. Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=77DQVM6A4L5E2 -Open Collective: https://opencollective.com/inxi +LiberaPay (sustaining donations): https://liberapay.com/smxi/ ================================================================================ DEVELOPMENT AND ISSUES @@ -113,7 +118,7 @@ REPO: https://codeberg.org/smxi/inxi MAIN BRANCH: master DEVELOPMENT BRANCHES [not used]: one, two -pinxi [development version for inxi]: +pinxi [development version of inxi]: REPO: https://codeberg.org/smxi/pinxi MAIN BRANCH: master @@ -142,7 +147,7 @@ is stable and is generally only updated when a new tagged version is completed. PACKAGERS: inxi has one and only one 'release', and that is the current tagged version in the master branch (plus pinxi repo, of course, but pinxi should in -general not be packaged). +general not be packaged). No non-current versions of inxi are supported. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MASTER BRANCH @@ -229,7 +234,8 @@ wget -O binxi https://smxi.org/binxi This version will not be maintained, and it's unlikely that any time will be spent on it in the future, but it is there in case it's of use or interest to -anyone. +anyone. Please don't ask for any help with that, the reason inxi was rewritten +to Perl was to avoid ever needing to battle with bash/gawk again. This was kept for a long time as the inxi-legacy branch of inxi, but was moved to the inxi-legacy repo 2021-09-24. @@ -241,7 +247,8 @@ SUPPORT INFO Do not ask for basic help that reading the inxi -h / --help menus, or man page would show you, and do not ask for features to be added that inxi already has. Also do not ask for support if your distro won't update its inxi version, some -are bad about that. +are bad about that. Yes, these are long, but inxi does a lot of stuff, not all +of it particularly ihtuitive. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DOCUMENTATION @@ -452,7 +459,7 @@ The fourth number, when used, will be alpha-numeric, a common version would be, in say, branch one: 2.2.28-b1-02, in other words: branch 1 patch version 2. In the past, now and then the 4th, or 'patch', number, was used in trunk/master -branches of inxi, but I've pretty much stopped doing that because it's +branches of inxi, but that practice has pretty much stopped because it's confusing. inxi does not use the fiction of date based versioning because that imparts no |