Link to Alex's binary packages

svn path=/trunk/mono/; revision=1835

2 files changed, 26 insertions, 26 deletions

diff --git a/web/c-sharp b/web/c-sharp
index d90a01602f7..47442a21f31 100644
--- a/web/c-sharp
+++ b/web/c-sharp
@@ -1,20 +1,17 @@
 * MCS: The Ximian C# compiler
 
-	MCS is currently able to compile many C# programs (there is
-	a test suite included that you can use).  
+	MCS is currently able to compile itself and many more C#
+	programs (there is a test suite included that you can use).
 
 	We are in feature completion mode right now.  There are still
 	a couple of areas that are not covered by the Mono compiler, but
 	they are very very few at this point.
 
-	The compiler can compile itself, but the resulting image contains
-	a few errors that we are quickly fixing.
-
 	MCS was able to parse itself on April 2001, MCS compiled itself
-	for the first time on December 28 2001.  We hope to have the compiler
-	self hosting on Linux by the end of January.
+	for the first time on December 28 2001.  MCS became self hosting
+	on January 3rd, 2001. 
 
-	A test suite is being built currently to track the progress of
+	A test suite is maintained to track the progress of
 	the compiler and various programs are routinely compiled and
 	ran.
 
@@ -60,20 +57,10 @@
 	Simple tasks:
 
 	<ul>
-		* Extern declarations are missing.
-	</ul>
-
-	Larger tasks:
-
-	<ul>
-		* Finish constant folding, it is complete enough
-		  to compile itself, but it is lacking error reporting.
-
 		* Redo the way we deal with built-in operators.
 	</ul>
 
-	Interesting and Fun hacks to the compiler:
-
+	Larger tasks:
 	<ul>
 
 		* Jay does not work correctly with `error'
diff --git a/web/download b/web/download
index 8e61fedc78d..ad46e629572 100644
--- a/web/download
+++ b/web/download
@@ -135,19 +135,32 @@
 	To compile the mono runtime on windows:
 
 	<ul>	
-		* Warning: We switched over to glib2.0, and we are still searching
-		for a volunteer who is able to provide us with binary packages
-		of glib2.0, pkgconfig and iconv. I was unable to compile
-		glib2.0 myself, so the following is only a rough outline how it
-		should work.
-
 		* Install <a href="http://www.cygwin.com">CygWin</a> first.
 
+		* Install in /usr/local in your Cygwin world the following
+	  	  packages (compiled by <a href="mailto:alex@ximian.com">Alex Graveley</a>:
+		<ul>
+		<li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~alex/glib-1.3.12-win32-native.zip">
+		http://primates.ximian.com/~alex/glib-1.3.12-win32-native.zip</a>
+
+		<li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~alex/pkg-config-0.8-cygwin.zip">
+		http://primates.ximian.com/~alex/glib-1.3.12-win32-native.zip"></a>
+		</ul>
+
+		These already contain libiconv linked statically. 
+
+	</ul>
+
+	If you want to compile things yourself you will need to compile and install:
+
+
+	<ul>
 		* Install <a href="http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig">pkgconfig</a>.
                   (I had to change line 674 of
                   <nobr><tt>pkgconfig-0.8.0/glib-1.2.8/gstrfuncs.c</nobr> from 
 		  <nobr><tt>extern char *strsignal (int sig);</nobr> to
 		  <nobr><tt>extern const char *strsignal (int sig);</nobr>.
+
 <pre>
 tar xzvf pkgconfig-0.8.0.tar.gz
 cd pkgconfig-0.8.0
@@ -161,7 +174,7 @@ make install
 		  the binary package available at <a
 		  href="http://www.gimp.org/win32/libiconv-dev-20001007.zip">here</a>.
  
-		* Install the newest glib (cvs head version). You can download it
+		* Install the newest glib (1.3 version). You can download it
                   from <a href="ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v1.3/glib-1.3.12.tar.gz">here</a>.
 
 		* Unpack the mono distribution: