Download and installation
=========================

The current release is version |version|.

Packaged versions
-----------------

You can download it `from the Python Package Index
<https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Pygments>`_.  For installation of packages from
PyPI, we recommend `Pip <https://www.pip-installer.org>`_, which works on all
major platforms.

Under Linux, most distributions include a package for Pygments, usually called
``pygments`` or ``python-pygments``.  You can install it with the package
manager as usual.

Development sources
-------------------

We're using the Git version control system.  You can get the development source
using this command::

    git clone https://github.com/pygments/pygments

Development takes place at `GitHub <https://github.com/pygments/pygments>`_.

The latest changes in the development source code are listed in the `changelog
<https://github.com/pygments/pygments/blob/master/CHANGES>`_.

.. Documentation
   -------------

.. XXX todo

   You can download the documentation either as
      a bunch of rst files from the Git repository, see above, or
      as a tar.gz containing rendered HTML files:
      
pygmentsdocs.tar.gz
