$Id: README,v 1.2 2004/03/22 03:31:28 jd Exp $ $Author: jd $

	      - - GNU Libraries and Engines for Games - -


1 -- Translations/Traductions
	
The french language of this file is also available in doc/README.fr.
La version franaise de ce fichier se situe dans doc/README.fr.

--

2 -- About Leg

GNU Leg (Libraries and Engines for Games) is a developing tool written
in C++ that provides tools ranging from simple libraries to resource
editors designed to make game creation easier.  Technically, GNU Leg
is primarily a set of libraries that operate at various levels.

Various styles of games can be made using GNU Leg.  It's designed to
be generic and granular so that users are able to extend it or modify
some of it as they wish.  Although performance will be good in most
cases, it might be slightly slower.  However, GNU Leg is designed to
make things easier to understand, to make, to modify, to
personalize...

GNU Leg is mainly intended for users of GNU/Linux (and other Free
Unix-like operating systems).  It is aimed mostly at programmers at
this time.  However, in the future it will provide tools for people
who wish to modify existing games.  If you think you can help GNU
Leg's evolution in any manner (programming, writing documentation,
webmastering, ...), please contact us at one of these addresses:
zionarea@free.fr or bindej@rpi.edu or ali@pcmac.org.  You'll have a
response few days later.

GNU Leg main design uses many C++ capabilities such as generic
programming, polymorphism, inheritence, encapsulation, and exception
handling.

The documentation is included in HTML format at
doc/api/html/index.html.  GNU Leg uses doxygen in its header files in
order to make the API documentation in the docs directory.  This type
of system is quite convenient for us, and doxygen accomplishes this
well.  You can type type 'make docs' in order to rebuild it.  Doxygen
is Free Software available from doxygen.org.

GNU Leg is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
option) any later version.  See the file COPYING for more information.

GNU Leg is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

See the file COPYING for more details about the license.  See the
AUTHORS file to find out who is involved with this project, who has
contributed to it, and who is currently maintaining it.

--

3 -- More about Leg

You can find out more documentation about what is Leg in the doc
sub-directory.
