<title>Downloading FOP</title>
<p>You can download the latest release version from the <link
href="http://xml.apache.org/dist/fop/">distribution directory</link>. </p>
- <p>The file contains also the documentation (including some example fo files) and the source. </p>
- <p>If you want to work with the latest and nicest code, you can use the cvs version. See the section
- on AnonCVS in the <link href="http://xml.apache.org/cvs.html">xml.apache.org documentation</link> for details.
- Sometimes people have difficulties to access the cvs server; in this case you can download
- a snapshot from the cvs files <link href="http://xml.apache.org/from-cvs/xml-fop/">here</link>.
- In both cases you have to build FOP yourself - see <link href="compiling.html">Compiling FOP</link> for details.
+ <p>Each version exists as binary (bin) and source (src) distribution. The binary distribution contains the
+ compiled package along with the documentation (including some example XSL-FO files). The source distribution
+ additionally contains the whole source code.</p>
+ <p>If you want to work with the latest and nicest code, you can download it from CVS. See the section
+ on AnonCVS in the <link href="http://xml.apache.org/cvs.html">xml.apache.org documentation</link> for details.</p>
+ <p>Sometimes people have difficulties to access the CVS server; in this case you can download
+ a snapshot from the CVS files <link href="http://xml.apache.org/from-cvs/xml-fop/">here</link>.
+ Please be aware that the snapshots currently mirrors the development code for the upcoming FOP 1.0 and not the
+ code from the current releases. You need to download from CVS in this case. (See the note below)</p>
+ <p>If you don't download a binary distribution you have to build FOP yourself -
+ see <link href="compiling.html">Compiling FOP</link> for details.
</p>
<note>
Important: Currently, releases of FOP are coming out of the