From: Eugene Sajine <euguess@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2009 03:49:54 GMT
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git 1.6.5.4
Message-ID: <76c5b8580912031949k7f4193f9q94f9a2040b877571@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vbpif4rn2.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com> writes:
>
>> I tested with this in Documentation/manpage-base.xsl on a CentOS 5 box
>> and it builds fine, leaving no cruft in the man pages regarding the
>> man.base.url...
>>
>> <!-- set a base URL for relative links -->
>> <xsl:param name="man.base.url.for.relative.links"
>>        >/path/to/git/docs</xsl:param>
>>
>> Of course, the relative links looked just like they did in older
>> docbook releases:
>>
>>        1. Everyday Git
>>           everyday.html
>>
>> Is it worth the effort to have @@MAN_BASE_URL@@ in
>> Documentation/manpage-base.xsl or similar and replace it at build
>> time?
>
> I think it depends on the likelihood that a distro has xmlto so old that
> it does not understand --stringparam yet it uses stylesheet so new that
> setting the parameter makes a positive difference (either it gives the
> full URL or at least squelches the "You should define the parameter"
> noise) in the output.
>
> I am guessing that the answer would be that is a very unlikely combination
> and not worth worrying about it, but I've been wrong before in this exact
> area ;-)


Hello,

We have RH with xmlto 0.0.18. I was getting ready to update our
installation to 1.6.5.4, but as i understand the documentation will
not be fully available untill this issue is resolved. Could you,
please, advise if this is going to be in next 1.6.5.5?

Thanks,
Eugene