* Justin Erenkrantz wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 10:37:47AM -0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >  # (pending) httpd version
> > -httpd.version=2.1.9
> > +httpd.version=2.2.0
>
> So, what exactly does this do?

This is more or less informal. It's taken to create the file names for 
offline packages (dist/httpd/docs). It's nice to have it in sync with the 
release, but not a strict requirement.

> It'd be really nice to have just one place to change the version number.
> But, even after chasing this property for a while, I couldn't see how
> this would be it.  $httpd_version or <httpd_version/> or something in
> each .xml file that gets substituted for some string value at build-time
> would be beautiful.

Good point. I haven't figured out yet a way to unify the code and docs trees 
in this regard (docco folks typically have only the docs tree checked out).

> Thanks for the prop fixes.  I didn't get any error about the empty tags
> being invalid - I wonder why you did.  -- justin

`build validate-xml` :-) [1]
It might be questionable to reject empty lists, though. We can change the 
DTDs if we want to.

nd

[1] `build -projecthelp` shows all possible targets
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Winnetous Erbe: <http://pub.perlig.de/books.html#apache2>

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