[4502] Updated User's Guide.

Updated:
- Supported OSes
- Packages required at runtime to run Kea,
- Packages required to build Kea

diff --git a/doc/guide/install.xml b/doc/guide/install.xml
index 0f4ad19e9a719ac972800ceb9a6a6217fa92d62c..34499013b624824f5d4714372368fe0ecd2f67bc 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/guide/install.xml
+++ b/doc/guide/install.xml
@@ -106,9 +106,7 @@
             <listitem>
                 <para>Boost build-time headers
           (<ulink url="http://www.boost.org/"/>).
-          At least Boost version 1.35 is required.
-  <!-- TODO: we don't check for this version -->
-  <!-- NOTE: jreed has tested with 1.34, 1.38, and 1.41. -->
+          At least Boost version 1.41 is required.
           When header-only Boost error code is not available or wanted, the
           Boost system library is required too.
         </para>
@@ -116,7 +114,7 @@
 
             <listitem>
         <para>
-          Botan (at least version 1.8) or OpenSSL.</para>
+          Botan (version 1.8, 1.9 or 1.10) or OpenSSL (versions 1.0.*).</para>
           </listitem>
 
           <listitem>
@@ -134,20 +132,57 @@ Debian and Ubuntu:
 
         <listitem>
         <para>
-          A C++ compiler and
-          standard development headers.
-          Kea builds have been tested with GCC g++ 3.4.3, 4.1.2,
-          4.1.3, 4.2.1, 4.3.2, and 4.4.1; Clang++ 2.8; and Sun C++ 5.10.
+          A C++ compiler and standard development headers.
+          Kea 1.1.0 builds have been tested with GCC g++ 4.2.1,
+          4.4.7, 4.6.3, 4.8.3, 4.8.4, 4.8.5, 5.4.0; Clang++ 3.4.1;
+          and Apple Clang++ 703.0.31.
          <!-- @todo update this list -->
         </para>
         </listitem>
 
         <listitem>
         <para>
-          The development tools "make".
+          The development tools: automake, libtool, pkg-config.
         </para>
         </listitem>
 
+        <listitem>
+        <para>
+          MySQL client development libraries, when using --with-dhcp-mysql
+          configuration flag to build the Kea MySQL database backend.
+          In this case an instance of the MySQL server running
+          locally or on some other machine, reachable over the network
+          from the machine running Kea, is required. Though, running
+          unit tests requires that the MySQL server is local.
+        </para>
+        </listitem>
+
+        <listitem>
+        <para>
+          PostgreSQL client development libraries, when using
+          --with-dhcp-pgsql configuration flag to build the Kea PostgreSQL
+          database backend. In this case an instance of the PostgreSQL
+          server running locally or on some other machine, reachable over
+          the network from the machine running Kea, is required. Though,
+          running unit tests requires that the PostgreSQL server is
+          local.
+        </para>
+        </listitem>
+
+        <listitem>
+        <para>
+          googletest (version 1.6 or later), when using --with-gtest configuration option.
+        </para>
+        </listitem>
+
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Documentation generating tools: elinks, docbook-xsl, libxslt and Doxygen,
+            when generating documentation using --enable-generate-docs configuration
+            option.
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+
         </itemizedlist>
 
         <para>

diff --git a/doc/guide/intro.xml b/doc/guide/intro.xml
index 424673fc2e79e20bc425820905dcb5516ee65bc4..f1a180dada8e306163fa99bec7690c350a9972e0 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/guide/intro.xml
+++ b/doc/guide/intro.xml
@@ -29,13 +29,12 @@
       <title>Supported Platforms</title>
       <para>
         Kea is officially supported on Red Hat Enterprise Linux,
-       CentOS, Fedora and FreeBSD systems. It is also likely to work on many
-       other platforms: builds have been tested on (in no particular order)
-        Debian GNU/Linux 6 and unstable, Ubuntu 9.10, NetBSD 5,
-        Solaris 10 and 11, FreeBSD 7 and 8, CentOS Linux 5.3,
-        MacOS 10.6 and 10.7, and OpenBSD 5.1. Non supported systems
-       (especially non-Linux) are likely to have issues with directly
-       connected DHCPv4 clients.
+           CentOS, Fedora and FreeBSD systems. It is also likely to work on many
+           other platforms: builds have been tested on (in no particular order)
+        Red Hat Enteprise Linux 6.4, Debian GNU/Linux 7, Ubuntu 12.04,
+        Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 16.04, Fedora Linux 19, Fedora 20, Fedora 22,
+        CentOS Linux 7, NetBSD 6, FreeBSD 10.3, OpenBSD 5.7, OpenBSD 6.0,
+        OS X 10.10, OS X 10.11.
       </para>
       <para>There are currently no plans to port Kea to Windows platforms.</para>
     </section>
@@ -59,9 +58,10 @@
         Kea supports two crypto libraries: Botan and OpenSSL. Only one of them
         is required to be installed during compilation. Kea uses the Botan
         crypto library for C++ (<ulink url="http://botan.randombit.net/"/>),
-        version 1.8 or later. As an alternative to Botan, Kea can use the
-        OpenSSL crypto library (<ulink url="http://www.openssl.org/"/>).
-        It requires a version with SHA-2 support.
+        version 1.8, 1.9 or 1.10. As an alternative to Botan, Kea can use the
+        OpenSSL crypto library (<ulink url="http://www.openssl.org/"/>),
+        version 1.0.*. Support for later versions of Botan and OpenSSL will
+        be added with later releases of Kea.
             </simpara>
         </listitem>
 
@@ -91,9 +91,9 @@
 
         <listitem>
             <simpara>
-       In order to store lease information in a CQL database, Kea requires CQL
-    headers and libraries. This is an optional dependency in that Kea can be
-    built without CQL support.
+       In order to store lease information in a Cassandra  database (CQL), Kea
+    requires Cassandra headers and libraries. This is an optional dependency
+    in that Kea can be built without Cassandra support.
             </simpara>
         </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>