Am 06.11.2012 um 20:06 schrieb John Kasunich:

> On Tue, Nov 6, 2012, at 12:52 PM, John Morris wrote:
> 
>> Astonishingly, asciidoc, which LinuxCNC requires v. 8.5 or higher, is 
>> still at v. 8.4.5 for even fedora rawhide, and the package hasn't been 
>> touched since 2009.
> 
> I am completely out of the loop on this, but anytime I see "requires
> version X.X or higher", I always wonder if the project really uses some
> feature or bugfix that only exists in that version?  Or is it simply a
> case
> of "that is what was on the initial developer's system" ?
> 
> Do we know for a fact that asciidoc 8.4.whatever won't build the
> LinuxCNC documents, or is that simply what happens to be 
> included with Ubuntu?

we know, it was a terrible PITA just to get it to run on the lucid-supplied 
asciidoc, which is 8.5.2

there are several version-specific macros needed, and also options in the .txt 
files proper just to cater with the issues in 8.5.2 

-m

> 
> John Kasunich
> (not a fan of rapid obsolence)
> 
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