# HG changeset patch
# User Tuomo Valkonen <tuomov@iki.fi>
# Date 1587481191 18000
# Node ID 9f3ae6b3133f57411f37805586324abb691e41d1
# Parent  3e9d88b2c14b485b601bf7377cd9cc2dae14f4f2
Improve installation instructions;
move py2app to keychain configuration section.

diff -r 3e9d88b2c14b -r 9f3ae6b3133f README.md
--- a/README.md	Mon Apr 20 18:14:12 2020 -0500
+++ b/README.md	Tue Apr 21 09:59:51 2020 -0500
@@ -25,7 +25,10 @@
 
 ## Installation
 
-On macOS, first run
+Borgend is written in [Python](https://www.python.org/), and requires a working
+python3 installation. Install it according to instructions for your operating
+system. Borgend also requires some additional Python libraries. To install these,
+on macOS, run
 
     pip3 install keyring pyyaml rumps
 
@@ -43,29 +46,12 @@
  - [xdg](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/xdg/3.0.0) for configuration file
    location (not needed on macOS)
 
-With the dependencies satisfied, Borgend may be run with
+With the dependencies satisfied, and Borgend downloaded, it may be run from
+its download location with
 
     python3 borgend.py
 
-To permanently authenticate Borgend to use the keychain, and therefore not
-have to enter the keychain password every time Borgend is launched, it is
-useful to create a standalone Mac app. This can be done with
-
- - [py2app](https://py2app.readthedocs.io/en/latest/install.html). 
-
-To create an app that you can launch at startup and give permanent permissions
-to the keychain, use
-
-    python3 setup.py py2app -A
-
-The app hould be placed under `dist/`. Copy it to your `Applications`
-directory, and set it up to launch on login.
-
-If you are keen on wasting your life, you can try to run py2app without the
-`-A` option to create a standalone app that you can copy to computers without 
-Python installed, but it will probably most likely not work because py2app
-is shit. Currently (2018-09-18) it is not working with the keyring package.
-
+Before this, you will probably, however, want to create a configuration file as detailed below.
 
 ## Usage and configuration
 
@@ -93,3 +79,21 @@
 
     security add-generic-password -a myrepo -s borg-backup -w [PASSWORD]
 
+To permanently authenticate Borgend to use the keychain, and therefore not
+have to enter the keychain password every time Borgend is launched, it is
+useful to encapculate it into a macOS app. This can be done with
+
+ - [py2app](https://py2app.readthedocs.io/en/latest/install.html).
+
+To create an app that you can launch at startup and give permanent permissions
+to the keychain, use
+
+    python3 setup.py py2app -A
+
+The app hould be placed under `dist/`. Copy it to your `Applications`
+directory, and set it up to launch on login.
+
+If you are keen on wasting your life, you can try to run py2app without the
+`-A` option to create a standalone app that you can copy to computers without
+Python installed. This will, however, most likely not work because py2app
+is shit. Currently (2018-09-18) it is not working with the keyring package.