From 85aeb601b330a43c04fd484b07499e18b2680e01 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jan200101 Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2020 18:25:18 +0200 Subject: Update README, add built instructions, add missing dependencies --- README.md | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 83f470a..868dcb5 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,18 +1,42 @@ # polecat -*What is polecat?* -polecat is like lutris except it does none of the work for you and only downloads wine and dxvk +- *What is polecat?* +polecat is wine manager -*why?* -I got sick of Lutris breaking every 2 weeks and know how to manage my own wine prefixes +- *why?* +I used to use Lutris to manage installed Wine games but after +the lutris team had released a stable version with a program +breaking regression and the master branch was working as well +as a alpha branch I decided enough is enough and started working +on my own. + +- *Why should I use polecat instead of X* +maybe you are tired of lutris breaking like me or maybe you +just don't want to use lutris because its a bloated python +application running GTK with [CSD](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Client-side_decoration) + +- *Can I help?* +If you use polecat you are already more than I could ask for +but if you want to go the extra step you can go ahead and +look at the [roadmap](https://github.com/Jan200101/polecat/issues/1) and suggest or implement things ## Dependencies polecat depends on: +- pkg-config - libcurl +- curl-config (should be included with the libcurl development package) - json-c - libarchive -### License -MIT \ No newline at end of file +## Build instructions + +- ensure you have all [dependencies](#Dependencies) installed +- run `make` for a debug build +- run `make TARGET=release` for a release build + + +### [License](LICENSE) + +polecat is licensed under MIT so feel free to do what you want with it \ No newline at end of file -- cgit v1.2.3