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66 [toolshelf][]-powered, [Funicular][]-built "distro" containing almost all of
77 [Cat's Eye Technologies][]' software distributions.
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9 **If you have a copy of The Cat's Eye Technologies Platform disk image**,
10 and you want to use it, see this document:
9 **If you want to download a pre-built disk image of The Cat's Eye Technologies Platform**,
10 open this torrent in your torrent client:
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12 * [The-Cats-Eye-Technologies-Platform-0.2.torrent](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/catseye/The-Platform/master/torrent/The-Cats-Eye-Technologies-Platform-0.2.torrent)
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14 **If you already have a copy of The Cat's Eye Technologies Platform disk image**,
15 and you want to know how to use it, see this document:
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1217 * [USAGE.markdown](USAGE.markdown)
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4045 in their development where they are all mutually compatible.
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4247 The current released version of The Cat's Eye Technologies Platform is
43 version **0.1**. It can be built with Funicular version 0.1 and employs
44 toolshelf version 0.1 revision 2014.0930 as its "packaging system".
45 Its source code can be found at the tag `0.1` in the repository, for
46 example [on Github here](https://github.com/catseye/The-Platform/tree/0.1).
48 version **0.2**. It can be built with Funicular version 0.1-2015.0105 and
49 employs toolshelf version 0.1 revision 2014.1231 as its "packaging system".
50 Its source code can be found at the tag `0.2` in the repository, for
51 example [on Github here](https://github.com/catseye/The-Platform/tree/0.2).
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4853 All of the pieces of software that make up The Platform are interoperable;
4954 that is, every piece builds successfully on NetBSD 6.1.4, and those with
5055 test suites pass all of their relevant automated tests. The pieces are
5156 not, however, thoroughly tested manually.
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53 The current development version of The Cat's Eye Technologies Platform
54 is **0.2-PRE**. It is this version that the following sections describe;
55 however, no claims are made about the versions of any of the
56 software involved or its interoperability, and no claims will be made
57 until such time as the "-PRE" bit is dropped from the version number.
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5958 Quick Start
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62 Eventually, there will probably be a NetBSD disk image or ISO that you can
63 download with everything on it, but for now, if you want it, you'll have
64 to build it. The disk image is roughly 3.6G in size, so make sure you have
61 You can download a pre-built disk image of The Platform via the torrent
62 link given above. Or, if you are on a Unix-like operating system, you
63 can build your own image from source by following the following steps.
64 Either way, the disk image is roughly 3.6G in size, so make sure you have
6565 some free space.
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6767 * Install [Funicular][] 0.1-2015.0105 (via [toolshelf][], we would suggest,
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254254 This section highlights major changes from release to release.
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256 * **0.2-PRE**
256 * **0.2**
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258258 * Based on a newer, more modular version of toolshelf, with new features
259259 which do away with the need of keeping a local cookies file just
270270 wrapper script which is placed on the executable search path, with
271271 which the implementation may be run from the command line.
272272 * Added the NaNoGenLab.
273 * Created a torrent by which a pre-built disk image (and instructions
274 for using it) are distributed.
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274276 * **0.1**
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