ext/libuv/README.md in libuv-1.0.0 vs ext/libuv/README.md in libuv-1.0.2
- old
+ new
@@ -1,12 +1,14 @@
-# libuv
+![libuv][libuv_banner]
+## Overview
+
libuv is a multi-platform support library with a focus on asynchronous I/O. It
was primarily developed for use by [Node.js](http://nodejs.org), but it's also
used by Mozilla's [Rust language](http://www.rust-lang.org/),
[Luvit](http://luvit.io/), [Julia](http://julialang.org/),
-[pyuv](https://crate.io/packages/pyuv/), and [others](https://github.com/joyent/libuv/wiki/Projects-that-use-libuv).
+[pyuv](https://github.com/saghul/pyuv), and [others](https://github.com/joyent/libuv/wiki/Projects-that-use-libuv).
## Feature highlights
* Full-featured event loop backed by epoll, kqueue, IOCP, event ports.
@@ -64,15 +66,14 @@
$ make check
$ make install
### Windows
-First, Python 2.6 or 2.7 must be installed as it is required by [GYP][].
+First, [Python][] 2.6 or 2.7 must be installed as it is required by [GYP][].
+If python is not in your path set the environment variable `PYTHON` to its
+location. For example: `set PYTHON=C:\Python27\python.exe`
-Also, the directory for the preferred Python executable must be specified
-by the `PYTHON` or `Path` environment variables.
-
To build with Visual Studio, launch a git shell (e.g. Cmd or PowerShell)
and run vcbuild.bat which will checkout the GYP code into build/gyp and
generate uv.sln as well as related project files.
To have GYP generate build script for another system, checkout GYP into the
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See the [guidelines for contributing][].
[node.js]: http://nodejs.org/
[GYP]: http://code.google.com/p/gyp/
+[Python]: https://www.python.org/downloads/
[Visual Studio Express 2010]: http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/eng/products/visual-studio-2010-express
[guidelines for contributing]: https://github.com/joyent/libuv/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md
+[libuv_banner]: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/joyent/libuv/master/img/banner.png