Announce: snapshot builds

[Michael Smith <smith@xml-doc.org>]

The DocBook project now has an automated system for generating
pre-release snapshots of its project (stylesheet) distributions:

  http://docbook.sourceforge.net/snapshots/

The way it works is: Every time a change is checked into the
source in the project CVS repository for a particular module (xsl,
dsssl, slides), a new build is automatically started.

So if a developer from the team posts a message to the list saying
that something has been fixed in CVS, you can immediately go to
the location above to download a snapshot including the fix.

So please download and use the snapshots to help the team test out
changes. Or use them if you're interested in getting your hands on
new features and fixes as quickly as possible.

Note that the XSL stylesheets snapshot contains an INSTALL file to
automatically adjust your XML catalog setup to use the snapshot
version of the stylesheets instead of whatever stable version
you may have installed. To use that INSTALL file; do this:

  ./INSTALL

    or

  sh INSTALL

That creates a catalog.xml file and gives some instructions for
using it (setting the XML_CATALOG_FILES and/or adjusting your
CatalogManager.properties file). If you run into a problem, just
remove that catalog.xml file and your system will revert to using
whatever stable version of the stylesheets you have installed.

Also, remember that iff you want to get automatically notified of
checkins so that you'll know when a new snapshot is available,
subscribe to the docbook-checkins mailing list -

  http://sources.redhat.com/ml/docbook-apps/2004-q4/msg00199.html

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