From 1fc09e20e1cfdf87691eaf74d9ca7e8f24b6222d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 01:37:54 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Improve docs page

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diff --git a/yarrg/web/docs b/yarrg/web/docs
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@@ -38,17 +38,33 @@
 <& webcopyright &>
 
 <h1>Introduction to YARRG</h1>
-YARRG (Yet Another Revenue Research Gatherer) is inspired by PCTB.
 
-<h1>Results</h1>
+YARRG (Yet Another Revenue Research Gatherer) is a third-party tool
+for helping find profitable trades and trade routes in Yohoho Puzzle
+Pirates.  It was inspired by
+<a href="http://pctb.crabdance.com/">PCTB</a>.
+
+<p>
+
+The system has two main parts: this website which maintains a
+searchable database of commodity prices, and an upload client, which
+screenscrapes the commodity data from the Puzzle Pirates game client
+and uploads it to the database.
+
+<h2><a href="lookup">Market prices database</a></h2>
 
 The <a href="lookup">lookup page</a> gives access to the uploaded data.
 
-<h1>Obtaining the client</h1>
-The current official version of YARRG for use as a client can browsed here:
- <a href="/~ijackson/ypp-sc-tools/master/">http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~ijackson/ypp-sc-tools/master/</a>
+<h2>Uploading from Linux</h2>
+
+The YARRG upload client uploads both to YARRG and to the
+<a href="pctb.ilk.org">PCTB testing server</a>.
 
 <p>
+
+The current official version of YARRG for use as an upload
+client can browsed here:
+ <a href="/~ijackson/ypp-sc-tools/master/">http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~ijackson/ypp-sc-tools/master/</a>
 See particularly the
 <a href="/~ijackson/ypp-sc-tools/master/yarrg/README">YARRG README</a>.
 
@@ -66,14 +82,27 @@ this will download the code into the directory <code>ypp-sc-tools</code>,
 and build the software.
 
 <p>
-When new versions are released, you can:
+
+When new versions of the upload client are released, you can:
 <pre>
 cd .../ypp-sc-tools
 git-pull
+cd yarrg
+make
 </pre>
-to fetch the new version.  
+to fetch the new version.
+
+<h2>Uploading from Windows</h2>
 
-<h1>Free Software (aka Open Source)</h1>
+There is not currently an upload client for Windows which feeds data
+into YARRG.  It would probably be straightforward to modify the
+Windows PCTB v5 upload client to upload to YARRG as well.  The
+mechanism and format for uploading is documented in
+<a href="/~ijackson/ypp-sc-tools/master/yarrg/README.devel">README.devel</a>.
+
+<h1>YARRG development, contribution and troubleshooting</h1>
+
+<h2>Free Software (aka Open Source)</h2>
 
 YARRG is Free Software - you may share and modify it.  See the
 licences for details.
@@ -89,17 +118,24 @@ directory.
 But in case we have made changes but not yet pushed them
 (perhaps because we haven't done a release), and to make it easy for
 anyone else who runs a copy of the website to provide everyone with
-the source for their version, you can download an up-to-date
-<a href="source.tar.gz">tarball</a> of the
-actually-running website code.
+the source for their version, the website code itself lets you download
+an up-to-date <a href="source.tar.gz">tarball</a> of its
+actually-running source code.
 
 <p>
 
 If you would like to run a (perhaps modified) copy of the YARRG
-website it would be very easy for us to send you copies of updates
-submitted by users of the official YARRG client, in the format
-expected by the code you'll be running.  Please just ask us.
+website it would be very easy for us to make our system send you
+copies of updates submitted by users of the official YARRG client, in
+the format expected by the code you'll be running.  Please just ask
+us.
 
 </html>
 
+<h2>Contacting the YARRG developers</h2>
+
+Email Ian Jackson ijackson (at) chiark.greenend.org.uk.  Or talk to
+any Fleet Officer or above of the crew Special Circumstances on the
+Midnight Ocean.
+
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