Re: [Refdb-users] Client--server version mismatches

[Paul A. H. <pa...@lo...>]

Hi Markus,

On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 06:16:05PM +0200, Markus Hoenicka wrote:

> Paul A. Hoadley writes:
>
>  > I _thought_ that a quick fix might be copying over the 0.9.5-pre3
>  > /usr/local/etc/refdb directory to the Cygwin box.  Even more
>  > problems resulted, suggesting to me that more changes than just
>  > the addition of a hyphen have been added to the XML side of
>  > things bewteen the two releases.
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> There were quite a few changes on the client side to implement this
> change:
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> dsssl/refdb/citations.dsl
> dsssl/refdb/html/docbook-refdb.dsl
> dsssl/refdb/print/docbook-refdb.dsl
> src/refdbxp.c
> xsl/refdb/citations.xsl
> xsl/refdb/docbk-refdb-xsl/docbk-fo/docbk-refdb-fo.xsl.in
> xsl/refdb/docbk-refdb-xsl/docbk-html/docbk-refdb-html.xsl.in
> xsl/refdb/docbk-refdb-xsl/docbk-xhtml/docbk-refdb-xhtml.xsl.in
> xsl/refdb/tei-refdb-xsl/tei-fo/tei-refdb-fo.xsl.in
> xsl/refdb/tei-refdb-xsl/tei-html/tei-refdb-html.xsl.in

Ah, OK.  It's clearly a bit more complicated than I thought.  :-)

>  > It actually _won't_ be much trouble to _downgrade_ the 0.9.5-pre3
>  > server side to 0.9.4, but before I do:
>  >=20
>  > 1)  Is there a different quick and dirty fix I could try?
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> The not-so-quick fix is to replace the above-mentioned files on the
> client side with their counterparts in 0.9.5-pre3. You'll then have
> to reprocess every document with refdbxp, e.g. by running make clean
> && make pdf.

It was just as easy for me to temporarily downgrade.  So I did.  :-)

>  > 2)  Has anyone built Cygwin binaries for 0.9.5-pre3?
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> Yes. This is currently my production system, modulo one minor fix
> related to character encodings in bibliographies that I had to
> develop today. I could send you the binaries if you want me to, but
> they build straight out of the tarball.

I must say, I'm a bit of a Cygwin novice.  I don't even know if I've
installed gcc.  Maybe I will give it a try if I get some time.


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Paul.

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