## Installation guide for users who are not familiar with golang
step 1: install go on your machine and setup the environment by following the instructions from the following link:
https://golang.org/doc/install
make sure you set up your $GOPATH
step 2: also you may need to install Mercurial by following the instructions below
http://mercurial.selenic.com/downloads
step 3: download, compile, and install the project by executing the following command
go get github.com/chrislusf/weed-fs/go/weed
once this is down, you should see the executable "weed" under $GOPATH/bin
step 4: after you modify your code locally, you could start a local build by calling "go build" under $GOPATH/src/github.com/chrislusf/weed-fs/go/weed
## Reference
For pre-compiled releases,
https://bintray.com/chrislusf/Weed-FS/seaweed
## Introduction
## Introduction
@ -271,12 +236,34 @@ More tools and documentation, on how to maintain and scale the system. For examp
This is a super exciting project! And I need helpers!
This is a super exciting project! And I need helpers!
## Contributions ##
To make contributions easier, I have mirrored a repo in github.com
```
https://github.com/chrislusf/weed-fs.git
```
## Installation guide for users who are not familiar with golang
step 1: install go on your machine and setup the environment by following the instructions from the following link:
https://golang.org/doc/install
make sure you set up your $GOPATH
step 2: also you may need to install Mercurial by following the instructions below
http://mercurial.selenic.com/downloads
step 3: download, compile, and install the project by executing the following command
go get github.com/chrislusf/weed-fs/go/weed
once this is done, you should see the executable "weed" under $GOPATH/bin
step 4: after you modify your code locally, you could start a local build by calling "go install" under $GOPATH/src/github.com/chrislusf/weed-fs/go/weed