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-  <p>I host a number of official darcs resources here: </p>
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-  <h2>Code</h2>
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+  <h2>Download</h2>
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-    <li><a href="darcs-VERSION.tar.gz">Latest Prerelease Source</a> (VERSION).  <br/>
-    <li><a href="darcs-1.0.3.tar.gz">Latest Stable Source</a> (1.0.3).  <br/>
-    <span style="font-size:smaller">(<a href="http://darcs.net/DarcsWiki/CategoryBinaries">Many binary alternatives</a> are available)</span>
-    </li>
-    <li> You can also get and <a href="http://www.darcs.net/manual/node3.html#SECTION00300050000000000000">build</a> the latest source directly via darcs: 
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-        <pre>
-darcs get http://www.abridgegame.org/repos/darcs/
-</pre>
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-    </li>
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+    <li><a href="http://darcs.net/DarcsWiki/CategoryBinaries">Precompiled binaries</a> of the latest stable release of darcs for various platforms including Windows, Mac OS X, FreeBSD and its siblings, Solaris, and AIX, a dozen flavors of Linux, and Cygwin.<br>
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+  <h2>Code</h2>
+  <p>Darcs is written in Haskell, not in C, so a Haskell compiler is required to compile darcs.  In addition, the Haskell compiler is written in Haskell, not in C, so you may experience a bootstrapping problem if a precompiled binary of the Haskell compiler is not available for your machine.  For most users, it is not necessary to build darcs from source, and instead one of the precompiled binary packages linked above will suffice.</p>
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+<ul>
+    <li><a href="darcs-VERSION.tar.gz">Latest Prerelease Source</a> (VERSION).  <br/>
+    <li><a href="darcs-1.0.3.tar.gz">Latest Stable Source</a> (1.0.3).  <br/>
+    <li> You can also get the latest source directly via darcs: 
+        <pre>
+darcs get http://www.abridgegame.org/repos/darcs/
+</pre>
+    </li>
+</ul>
+  <p>The manual includes a section on <a href="http://www.darcs.net/manual/node3.html#SECTION00300050000000000000">how to build darcs from source</a>.</p>
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