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* incorporation of Scripting Nodes into the scene graph which are
capable of executing Python code and callback functions
+This script is tested using the svn code from 20081227, and this is
+the tarball hosted on our site. You may elect to use this source code
+to build the package, or you can pull the latest from their subversion
+repository as indicated below.
+
+If you want to use the latest subversion source when building your
+Pivy package, you will need to get it from their svn server. To get
+the source code, you can use the included "Pivy-mksrctarball.sh"
+script, which will to download the source code and create a compressed
+tarball of it using the date (date +"%Y%m%d") as its version string.
+
+If you have already Pivy's source code as a tarball, for example:
+Pivy-20081227.tar.bz2
+You can tell the build script to use it with the following command:
+VERSION=20081227 ./Pivy.SlackBuild
+Note that this is the version that will be used by default unless you
+specify otherwise.
+
Pivy package depends on Coin and SWIG packages, both available from
-SlackBuilds.org. \ No newline at end of file
+SlackBuilds.org.