Initial port of the Name::Component, Name, Interest, Data, Signature, and Face classes
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+Prerequisites
+=============
+
+To "compile" documentation into html form you would need to install Sphinx documentation package, which should be relatively trivial.
+
+If you're on OSX platform:
+
+- If you have macports, then
+
+ sudo port install py27-sphinx
+ sudo port selectsphinx py27-sphinx
+
+- Install from source: http://sphinx-doc.org/install.html
+
+- Install from .pkg binary package: http://named-data.net/binaries/sphinx-doc-0.2.pkg
+
+If you're on Ubuntu Linux:
+
+ sudo apt-get install python-sphinx
+
+Compilation
+===========
+
+Just type
+
+ make html
+
+And a set of HTML pages will be build under ``_build/html``
+
+
+You can also type
+
+ make latexpdf
+
+This way Sphinx will prepare .tex file and will try to build .pdf document.
+