# HG changeset patch
# User Bernhard Reiter <bernhard@intevation.de>
# Date 1568821321 -7200
# Node ID aaab0ebde62347aefe8ed9cdccec98e874257740
# Parent  8fcabb6f971e4a74f555eb09c6b455ed76725b51
docs: add soem dev system requirements

diff -r 8fcabb6f971e -r aaab0ebde623 docs/DEVELOPMENT.md
--- a/docs/DEVELOPMENT.md	Wed Sep 18 17:26:28 2019 +0200
+++ b/docs/DEVELOPMENT.md	Wed Sep 18 17:42:01 2019 +0200
@@ -1,5 +1,13 @@
 # Development
 
+Main development is done on GNU/Linux systems, mainly Debian (stretch)
+or Ubuntu (18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver"). First try packages from these
+distributions.
+
+`Makefile` requires GNU Make for building. And `.sh` files refer to Bash.
+(Both are standard in GNU/Linux setups.)
+
+
 # View source code history
 
 If you want to see the source code structure and history