Junio C Hamano venit, vidit, dixit 26.03.2009 17:47: > Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > >> On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 02:48:52PM -0500, Chris Johnsen wrote: >> >>> I am not opposed to providing more version-specific controls, but I am not >>> sure which versions are important enough to justify their own variables. >>> Are you indicating that 1.73 is important enough because it was a "return >>> to sanity" after 1.72? >> >> No, mainly because it is what is shipped in the last version of Debian, >> which means it is a major enough version that there will be a lot of >> people using it. >> >> But let's just start with adding the tweakable knobs (which your series >> is already doing), and see in what ways they need to be tweaked for >> popular platforms before going overboard. > > When I was trying out the series yesterday, I was wondering if this is > something we can autodetect. > > Output from "asciidoc --version" is easily machine parsable for giving > asciidoc7compatible aka ASCIIDOC8, but I couldn't come up with anything > simpler than probing a few hardcoded paths under /usr/share/sgml; that > approach is unacceptable because would not work if your stylesheets are in > somewhere we do not know about. Ideally, we should be able to ask the > tools we invoke (e.g. xmlto) to get that information. Maybe run asciidoc/xmlto on a minimal test file and check the output? "autoconf lite", so to say. Michael -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
