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Re: experimental release of linuxdoc-tools (based on sgml-tools 1.0.9)
- To: Taketoshi Sano <sano at debian dot org>
- Subject: Re: experimental release of linuxdoc-tools (based on sgml-tools 1.0.9)
- From: Adam Di Carlo <adam at onshore dot com>
- Date: 16 May 2000 21:51:31 -0400
- Cc: ldp-discuss at lists dot linuxdoc dot org, sgml-tools at via dot ecp dot fr,gferg at hoop dot timonium dot sgi dot com, dave at lafn dot org,cg at cdegroot dot com (Cees de Groot),Guylhem Aznar <guylhemlistes at free dot fr>, <gferg at metalab dot unc dot edu>,debian-sgml at lists dot debian dot org, JF at linux dot or dot jp
- References: <20000517092453B.kgh12351@kgh12351.nifty.ne.jp>
- Reply-To: sgml-tools at via dot ecp dot fr
Taketoshi Sano <sano@debian.org> writes:
> I have put a source archive of modified sgml-tools 1.0.9
> with the name of linuxdoc-tools.
Why? Seems like this would cause confusion at this point..
> I have changed the command name of sgml-tools (main binary)
> to "linuxdoc", and added new option "--backend / -b", following
> the way of SGML-Tools v2 and SGMLTools-Lite.
>
> I have tried to change the name of other commands (sgmlcheck and
> sgml2xxxx), because "sgml" does not mean "linuxdoc" only.
>
> But I found that it does not keep backward-compatibility (this
> is the main reason to maintain the tool for Linuxdoc DTD), and
> it may break the user's scripts, so I revered their name to
> original sgmlcheck and sgml2xxxx.
Better to retain backwards compat., yes.
> When users will be familiar with the option "--backend / -b" and
> will not rely on old "sgml2xxx" commands, then these commands
> can be dropped, I hope.
I dunno -- retaining backwards compatability should be something we
do... I don't see the need to change it.
> Source archive and unofficial experimental Debian package for
> linuxdoc-tools can be downloaded from:
>
> http://www.debian.org/~sano/linuxdoc-tools/
>
> as
>
> Source Archive: 629272 linuxdoc-tools_0.3.5.orig.tar.gz
>
> Debian releated files:
>
> 8986 linuxdoc-tools_0.3.5-1.diff.gz
> 648 linuxdoc-tools_0.3.5-1.dsc
> 1016 linuxdoc-tools_0.3.5-1_i386.changes
> 217826 linuxdoc-tools_0.3.5-1_i386.deb
>
> I also put the source achive into
>
> http://www.linux.or.jp/JF/workshop/archives/
>
> but it may take a few days before it comes up there.
>
> Please check it and report the bugs in it to me. Thanks.
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.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>