Author: pekka.klarck
Date: Sun Mar 22 08:50:14 2009
New Revision: 1467
Modified:
trunk/doc/userguide/src/GettingStarted/Installation.txt
Log:
better explanation for installing rf with jython (issue 226)
Modified: trunk/doc/userguide/src/GettingStarted/Installation.txt
==============================================================================
--- trunk/doc/userguide/src/GettingStarted/Installation.txt (original)
+++ trunk/doc/userguide/src/GettingStarted/Installation.txt Sun Mar 22
08:50:14 2009
@@ -82,7 +82,9 @@
betas and alphas are not supported either. Unfortunately, also Jython
2.2.1 has certain Unicode problems (for more information, see
http://bugs.jython.org/issue1802339 and
-http://bugs.jython.org/issue1032).
+http://bugs.jython.org/issue1032). Jython 2.5 is currently under
+development and although it is not yet officially supported it should
+work without problems in most normal usage.
Installing Jython is a fairly easy procedure. First you need to get an
installer from the `Jython homepage`_ or directly from
@@ -93,7 +95,11 @@
mode, but in both cases, the actual installation procedure is very
easy.
-When installing Robot Framework, its installer tries to find the
+Jython 2.2 does not have Python's :code:`distutils` module, which
+is required for automatically installing Robot Framework.
+The normal procedure is installing Robot Framework using
+Python but `manual installation`_ is also possible.
+When installing Robot Framework with Python, its installer tries to find
the
Jython executable on the system to create the :prog:`jybot` runner script
correctly. Jython is found if:
