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@@ -56,19 +56,21 @@ obscure errors in the `scintilla/term/`, `gtdialog/`, or `scintillua/`
directories. What happened?
**A:**
-Some of the dependencies Textadept downloads are the latest archives in their
-respective version control repositories. Occasionally there are compile-time
-incompatibilities with these "bleeding-edge" downloads. The solution is to go to
-the appropriate repository and download the archive tagged for the version of
-Textadept you downloaded.
+Prior to Textadept 7.5, some of the dependencies Textadept downloads are the
+latest archives in their respective version control repositories. Occasionally
+there are compile-time incompatibilities with these "bleeding-edge" downloads.
+The solution is to go to the appropriate repository, identify the last revision
+whose date is before the release date of your Textadept version, and download
+the archive for that revision.
For example, if you have Textadept 7.1 and cannot build the terminal version due
to a file in the `scintilla/term/` directory, go to [scinterm hg][] and look for
-the "for\_textadept\_7.1" tag, click on it, download the [zip][], and replace
-the problematic file.
+the revision before 11 November 2013 (which happens to be [changeset 60][] from
+23 October 2013), click on it, download the zip from the link near the top of
+the page, and replace the problematic file.
[scinterm hg]: http://foicica.com/hg/scinterm
-[zip]: http://foicica.com/hg/scinterm/archive/ea13ae30cfab.zip
+[changeset 60]: http://foicica.com/hg/scinterm/rev/ea13ae30cfab
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