Fix typo in DataLog docstring.

[data_logger.git] / README

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@@ -9,6 +9,11 @@ General data is pickled using `cPickle`, and there are specialized
 methods for saving data in the form of binary strings or dicts of
 numpy arrays.
 
+`data_logger` is basically a really wimpy version of h5py_.  USE h5py
+INSTEAD!
+
+.. _h5py: http://code.google.com/p/h5py/
+
 Installation
 ============
 
@@ -31,16 +36,8 @@ On Debian-esque systems, the installation procedure should be::
 Gentoo
 ------
 
-You should probably use the `wtk overlay`_::
-
-  # emerge -av app-portage/layman dev-vcs/git
-  # layman --add wtk
-  # emerge -av sci-misc/data-logger
-
-.. _wtk overlay: http://www.physics.drexel.edu/~wking/unfolding-disasters/posts/Gentoo_overlay/
-
-You could also follow the `pip` route, although `pip` isn't in the
-Portage tree at the moment (`Gentoo bug 317791`_).  Either::
+`pip` isn't in the Portage tree at the moment (`Gentoo bug 317791`_),
+so either install it with `easy_install`::
 
   # emerge -av dev-python/setuptools
   # easy_install pip