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• tangerine Posts: 3,350Questions: 37Answers: 394

  March 2014

  I can't answer your questions, but if you download from here
  http://datatables.net/extras/
  the issue goes away.
• clairestreb Posts: 5Questions: 0Answers: 0

  March 2014

  @tangerine, right - the link you provided is for the officially released version. This question pertains to the beta version, which is the latest master and not yet released.
• tangerine Posts: 3,350Questions: 37Answers: 394

  March 2014

  Ah, ok - sorry.
• allan Posts: 61,972Questions: 1Answers: 10,160 Site admin

  March 2014 edited March 2014

  Github contains the source files, not the built examples (or any other generated / built code, with one or two exceptions). The examples have been rewritten as part of my work on DataTables 1.10 to be XML / Markdown based, which allows the raw example file size to be ~25 lines of code, compared to the ~700 lines of code for every example that used to be required.
  
  This makes the examples massively more maintainable, as well as more cohesive. Personally I never enjoyed writing the examples before - now I do, and I'm not afraid of altering one or two little things about the page layout, tweaking the data or adding / removing an example.
  
  You are absolutely correct that I should build instructions on how to create a the examples from source (its almost as trivial as most other software that needs to be installed from source). I'll add this to the documentation and readies soon, but in summary:
  
  You need a unix / linux environment with bash and php 5.3 or newer available. Clone / download the DataTablesSrc repo and then clone / download any of the extensions that you want into an `extensions` directory.
  
  Then on your terminal `cd` into DataTablesSrc/build and type `./make.sh build debug` . That will make DataTables in the DataTablesSrc/built directory. Use `./make.sh extension TableTools debug` to build TableTools.
  
  There are some options such as the path to closure compiler that may need to be altered for your system as well, but that's how to build DataTables and the extensions. As I say, I'll write this up properly soon.
  
  Allan
  
  Ps. The link to the released version from tangerine was built from the source repo.
• clairestreb Posts: 5Questions: 0Answers: 0

  March 2014

  @allan, Thanks for clearing things up. This can be closed now.
  @tangerine, My apologies, you were right after all, since Allan has explained github's xml files are sources that get built as html in the release.