From 508c68dd8f0307d684f393459d5135efcb9bf761 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Whiteknight Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2010 11:54:01 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Update readme with History and Download sections. Include information about location in the mediawiki repo --- README | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 34 insertions(+) diff --git a/README b/README index 00085b8..e0f3c55 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -10,6 +10,16 @@ report bugs and problems, visit the GitHub project page: http://www.github.com/Whiteknight/mediawiki-embedvideo +=== History === + +The original version of EmbedVideo was created by Jim R. Wilson. That version +was later forked by Mohammed Derakhshani as the EmbedVideoPlus extension. In +early 2010 Andrew Whitworth took over active maintenance of both extensions +and merged them together as "EmbedVideo". + +The newer versions of EmbedVideo are intended to be fully backwards-compatible +with both older EmbedVideo and EmbedVideoPlus extensions. + == License == EmbedVideo is released under the MIT license @@ -20,6 +30,30 @@ See LICENSE for more details == Installation == +=== Download === + +There are three places to download the EmbedVideo extension. The first is +directly from its GitHub project page, where active development takes place. +If you have git, you can use this incantation to check out a read-only copy +of the extension source: + + git clone git://github.com/Whiteknight/mediawiki-embedvideo.git + +Downloadable archive packages for numbered releases will also be available +from the github project page. + +You can also download a snapshot version, typically representing a beta test +version or a final release from the mediawiki svn repository: + + svn co http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/EmbedVideo + +Versions of EmbedVideo targetted towards tagged releases of mediawiki may also +be available in the mediawiki svn repository under the specific tagged +release. + +=== Installation Instructions === + +# Download the contents of the extension, as outlined above. # Create an EmbedVideo folder in the extensions/ folder of your MediaWiki installation. # Copy the contents of this distribution into that folder