From: Adam Dickmeiss Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 21:04:47 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Puts Mikes abstract to README X-Git-Tag: YAZPP.0.8~21 X-Git-Url: http://sru.miketaylor.org.uk/cgi-bin?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f8b84c5392b7cd02004f72ced65adbac2bdee1a6;p=yazpp-moved-to-github.git Puts Mikes abstract to README --- diff --git a/README b/README index 6fe138c..cfc76c5 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,20 +1,20 @@ YAZ++ - A C++ library for YAZ and a ZOOM C++ API. -$Id: README,v 1.3 2004-03-30 11:46:11 adam Exp $ +$Id: README,v 1.4 2004-03-31 21:04:47 adam Exp $ Introduction ------------ -YAZ++ is a C++ layer for YAZ and implements the ANSI Z39.50 -protocol for information retrieval (client and server side). -The YAZ++ homepage is: http://www.indexdata.dk/yaz++/ -Later versions of YAZ++ also supports SRW/SRU. +YAZ++ is a set of libraries and header files that make it easier to +use the the YAZ toolkit from C++, together with some utilities written +using these libraries. It includes an implementation of the C++ binding +for ZOOM and a powerful general-purposse Z39.50/SRW/SRU proxy. YAZ++ and ZOOM C++ uses the same license as YAZ - see LICENSE file for details. -This package also contains a proxy as well as a proxy library. This -component is covered by the GPL. See LICENSE.proxy for details. +The proxy application and development library is covered by the +GPL - see LICENSE.proxy for details. Documentation ------------- @@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ Directory structure of the YAZ++ package: -- lib (compiled libraries) -- win (Windows build files) -- doc (DocBook-format documentation) + -- etc (Proxy config + XSLT files) Installation, Unix ------------------