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RE: experimental release of linuxdoc-tools (based on sgml-tools 1 .0.9)
- To: Gregory Leblanc <GLeblanc at cu-portland dot edu>,ldp-discuss at lists dot linuxdoc dot org
- Subject: RE: experimental release of linuxdoc-tools (based on sgml-tools 1 .0.9)
- From: Guylhem Aznar <guylhem at ifrance dot com>
- Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 18:36:19 +0200
- Cc: adam at onshore dot com, sgml-tools at via dot ecp dot fr,gferg at hoop dot timonium dot sgi dot com, dave at lafn dot org,debian-sgml at lists dot debian dot org, JF at linux dot or dot jp, sano at debian dot org
- Reply-To: sgml-tools at via dot ecp dot fr
At 09:24 18/05/00 -0700, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> > I suggest you also rename each executable "sgml2xxx" to
> > "linuxdoc2xxx".
>
>Come on, Guy, pay attention. :-) He said that he wasn't changing these
>with this release to maintain backwards compatibility.
This is not backward compatibility for me :-)
Maybe a make install-backwardcompatible or a ./configure option on by default to install symlinks?
>I'd rather see them stay for now, and perhaps a couple of "bug-fix" versions later, then consider changing the names. There should at least be some warning to users who want the newer versions that the upgrade will break all of their wrappers and scripts
vi script
:%s/sgml2/linuxdoc/g