diff --git a/.cvsignore b/.cvsignore
index 56fb545fa..3385f0852 100644
--- a/.cvsignore
+++ b/.cvsignore
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 build.properties
+narya-*.jar
diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index 3821c0a50..d7da30718 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
   <property name="app.name"       value="narya"/>
   <property name="deploy.dir"     value="dist"/>
   <property name="savedoc.dir"    value="docs"/>
+  <property name="lib.version"    value="1.0"/>
 
   <!-- derived properties -->  
   <property name="javadoc.home"   value="${deploy.dir}/docs"/>
@@ -209,4 +210,19 @@
     </viztool>
   </target>
 
+  <!-- creates a tarball for source distribution -->
+  <target name="distrib">
+     <echo message="Building ${lib.version} distribution..."/>
+     <echo message="You may want to stop and run 'ant savedoc' first."/>
+     <jar destfile="narya-${lib.version}.jar">
+       <fileset dir="..">
+         <exclude name="**/CVS"/>
+         <include name="narya/**"/>
+         <exclude name="narya/dist/**"/>
+         <exclude name="narya/code/**"/>
+         <exclude name="narya/*.jar"/>
+       </fileset>
+     </jar>
+  </target>
+
 </project>
diff --git a/lib/README b/lib/README
index 28a029dcc..cd01ec847 100644
--- a/lib/README
+++ b/lib/README
@@ -1,24 +1,18 @@
 Required external libraries
 ---------------------------
 
-The Narya code requires the following external Java libraries (JAR
-files) to be placed (or symlinked) here in the lib/ directory or in the
-shared library directory specified in the build.xml file
-(${java.libraries}).
+The Narya code requires the following external Java libraries (JAR files)
+to be placed (or symlinked) here in the lib/ directory or in the shared
+library directory specified in the build.xml file (java.libraries).
 
-* The samskivert package:
-  (check out from CVS: projects/samskivert)
+* The samskivert library:
+  http://samskivert.com/code/samskivert/
 
 * MM MySQL driver:
   http://mmmysql.sourceforge.net/
 
-* Matt Welsh's Non-blocking IO library:
-  http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~mdw/proj/java-nbio/
-
-  (The native code shared library should be built and placed into
-  lib/i686-Linux where it will be automatically added to LD_LIBRARY_PATH
-  by the runjava script. Alternatively you can put it into your
-  LD_LIBRARY_PATH by hand.)
+* Various Apache Commons libraries:
+  http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/
 
 * The Java API for XML Processing (JAXP) 1.1 Reference Implementation:
   http://java.sun.com/xml/download.html
@@ -34,4 +28,4 @@ build system will automatically include them in the compile-time
 classpath.
 
 --
-$Id: README,v 1.5 2001/10/11 04:07:50 mdb Exp $
+$Id: README,v 1.6 2004/08/27 02:41:39 mdb Exp $