Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Announce: DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.50.0

[Camille Bégnis <camille at mandrakesoft dot com>]

Hi,

To RPM packages users (and packagers):

Up to now, each new release of a DSSSL or XSL stylesheets had its
corresponding RPM package but with the same name (docbook-style-dsssl
resp. docbook-style-xsl). Therefore installing a new version would
overwrite the previous one.

Another policy, based on new version numbering scheme, is to suffix the
name with the version number minus the last dot (i.e.
docbook-style-xsl-1.50) so that different versions with different public
APIs could coexist on a single system.

Would that be of any use to someone?


Camille.

Norman Walsh a écrit :
> 
> For more information, see
> 
>   http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/1.50.0/WhatsNew
> 
> (Some temporary problem at SF prevented me from uploading the changes
> to the files in the SF release area.)
> 
> The new version numbering scheme is an attempt to address stability
> issues brought to my attention by some of the larger documentation
> groups. The new plan is that changes to the middle number (50)
> indicate that there are some public API differences that could break
> existing customization layers. Changes to only the last number (0),
> "point releases", should be "safe" for existing customization layers.
> I'm not sure that will always be true for all customization layers,
> but that's the plan.
> 
> API changes are summarized in
> 
>   http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/1.50.0/RELEASE-NOTES.html
> 
> Share and enjoy!
> 
>                                         Be seeing you,
>                                           norm
> 
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