Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 15:53:34 -0500 (EST) From: "Fred L. Drake, Jr." <fdrake@acm.org> To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> Cc: docbook@lists.oasis-open.org, bortzmeyer@debian.org, doc@freebsd.org, sgml-tools@via.ecp.fr, dssslist@mulberrytech.com, oswg-discuss@oswg.org Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: Including OS Version information on DocBook elements Message-ID: <14431.59598.635029.702475@weyr.cnri.reston.va.us> In-Reply-To: <19991221195425.C50448@daemon.ninth-circle.org> References: <19991221122224.B75275@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> <14431.46583.222301.132344@weyr.cnri.reston.va.us> <19991221195425.C50448@daemon.ninth-circle.org>
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Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai writes: > Did I sound confused enough? ;) Wow! ;-) > How will we make sure the version get their relevant info to make those > decisions about what to include or not? > > Nik's solution involved a Makefile system with scripts. With the above > I reckon you want to integrate it into DSSSL or relevant tools? I don't think my suggestion had anything at all to do with tools. Whether someone wants to do the DSSSL/XSL footwork to implement this sort of versioning or use a Python script is entirely up to them. The notion of "current version" and version ranges just seems much more general than only interesting for operating systems. If I build a large piece of software (say, a programming language), I might want to be able to maintain the documentation for multiple versions. Some text may apply to version <= X, and other text to version > X, but other changes are simply to fix typos or other errors, and are not version specific in any way. If I can then regenerate the formatted documentation for, say, the last three versions, that would certainly be useful for users who aren't upgrading for whatever reason. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at acm.org> Corporation for National Research Initiatives To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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