On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 10:57 -0500, Shaun McCance wrote: > On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 17:14 +0200, Adrian Custer wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 09:50 -0500, Shaun McCance wrote: > > > On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 08:50 +0200, Adrian Custer wrote: > > > > What's the status of docbook version these days? I remember a few years > > > > ago I wanted to move to 4.3 but 'official' gnome was 4.2. Is there still > > > > an 'official' gnome version? Will that change in the near future? > > > > > > My official stance is that you should use whatever 4.x > > > version you like, but you should always check how it > > > looks in Yelp. There are at least some 4.3 features > > > that are implemented, but there are some old features > > > that aren't. So the DocBook version number doesn't > > > mean much. > > > > Hey Shaun, > > > > I guess you are the list maintainer so you get to see my mails before > > everyone else... > > > > My understanding was that we were bound to one 'official' version to > > limit the damage we imposed on distributions-i.e. not forcing them to > > ship each and every docbook dtd. Have we given up on that formally or > > merely forgotten to worry about such things? > > More or less, yeah. I've long been meaning to make Yelp > able to do entity substitution without any DocBook DTDs > laying around, but I haven't done it. That's the only > reason to have DTDs at run-time, since Yelp doesn't try > to validate documents.
That said, if you are concerned about DTD availability, we still have a lot of documents using 4.1.2, and there are a few using 4.3. I had some reason for converting things to 4.3 a couple years ago, but I don't remember what it was. I don't remember us ever embracing 4.2. Anything newer than 4.3 is unlikely to be supported by Yelp at this time. -- Shaun _______________________________________________ gnome-doc-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-doc-list
