ext/libuv/README.md in libuv-1.0.0 vs ext/libuv/README.md in libuv-1.0.2

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@@ -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 @@ -137,7 +138,9 @@ 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