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@@ -3,7 +3,10 @@ Welcome to `ziglings`! This project contains a series of tiny broken programs. By fixing them, you'll learn how to read and write [Zig](https://ziglang.org/) -code! +code. + +Those tiny broken programs need your help! (You'll also help some friendly +elephants stick together, which is very sweet of you.) This project was directly inspired by the brilliant and fun [rustlings](https://github.com/rust-lang/rustlings) @@ -26,9 +29,10 @@ to also check out these Zig language resources for more detail: ## Getting Started -Install a [master build](https://ziglang.org/download/) of the Zig compiler. +Install a [development build](https://ziglang.org/download/) of the Zig compiler. +(See the "master" section of the downloads page.) -Verify the installation and version of `zig` like so: +Verify the installation and build version of `zig` like so: ```bash $ zig version @@ -50,16 +54,16 @@ $ zig build ## A Note About Versions -The Zig language is under very active development. Ziglings will attempt to -be current, but not bleeding-edge. However, sometimes fundamental changes -will happen. Ziglings will check for a minimum version and build number. - -(See Getting Started above for the current minimum.) +The Zig language is under very active development. In order to be current, +Ziglings tracks development builds of the Zig compiler rather than versioned +releases. The last stable release was `0.7.1`, but Ziglings needs a dev build +with pre-release version "0.8.0" and a build number at least as high as that +shown in the example version check above. It is likely that you'll download a build which is _greater_ than the minimum. -Once you have a version of the Zig compiler that works with your copy of -Ziglings, they'll continue to work together. But if you update one, you may +Once you have a build of the Zig compiler that works with Ziglings, they'll +continue to work together. But keep in mind that if you update one, you may need to also update the other. ## Advanced Usage @@ -273,9 +273,11 @@ pub fn build(b: *Builder) void { stderrPrintFn( \\ERROR: Sorry, it looks like your version of zig is too old. :-( \\ - \\The README lists the minimum version and build number. + \\Ziglings requires a development ("master") build \\ - \\Please download a master build from + \\ 0.8.0-dev.1065 + \\ + \\or higher. Please download a development build from \\https://ziglang.org/download/ \\ , .{}); |