>>>> "SY" == Steve Youngs
<youngs(a)xemacs.org> writes:
SY> |--==> "APA" == Adrian Aichner <adrian(a)xemacs.org> writes:
Ville> On Mon, 2002-08-05 at 02:40, Steve Youngs wrote:
>>> You need to upgrade to texinfo 4.2
APA> I feel uneasy about jumping our requirement up all the way to
APA> 4.2 over night.
SY> Yeah, I'd feel uneasy about it too, but this is an important upgrade
SY> and we shouldn't overlook it.
SY> ,----[ texinfo-4.2/NEWS ]
SY> | *** IMPORTANT NEWS FOR ALL AUTHORS OF TEXINFO MANUALS ***
SY> |
SY> | As of version 4.2, Texinfo has a new command @copying to define the
SY> | copyright and copying permissions for a manual. It's important to
SY> | switch to using it as soon as possible (as in your next release),
SY> | because the historical method of doing copyright permissions using
SY> | @ifinfo failed to output copyright information in the HTML (or XML)
SY> | formats. The manual has detailed explanations and examples. For
SY> | convenience, here's a url to one of the relevant sections:
SY> |
http://texinfo.org/manual/Document-Permissions.html
SY> `----
APA> Peter reports FreeBSD does not have 4.2 yet.
It was Norbert that reported it actually.
SY> I'm sure that the FreeBSD folks will pick it up soon, in the meantime
SY> there's no reason why Peter can't build his own from source.
This is my current intention.
I will be installing 4.2 any second now so that will sove the problem.
Its not like i have a standard install of FreeBSD anyway.
APA> Any ideas?
SY> We should just do it.
I agree fully with this. The packages are being built on my box,
so if i have 4.2 its not a problem anymore.
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