[tei-council] streamlining release procedures

[Martin Holmes]

Ant is 1.8.2 on my Jinks server (Ubuntu 12.04), but only 1.8.0 on my 
Lucid (10.04) desktop. In Debian sid it's 1.8.2 
(<http://packages.debian.org/sid/ant>). Is it essential to support squeeze?

Cheers,
Martin

On 13-01-20 10:37 AM, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>
> On 20 Jan 2013, at 18:16, Martin Holmes <mholmes at uvic.ca>
>   wrote:
>> My Jinks, which doesn't do kindlegen (nasty closed-source proprietary
>> etc. etc.) is down to 23 minutes.
>
> I could get it down still further if the people who do Debian
> would upgrade their version of ant to 1.8.2 from 1.8.0.
> Sounds small, doesn't it, but it is significant. The 1.8.2 allows us
> to run jing and trang (which makes xsd and rnc formats) from within
> ant, like it oughta, and avoid the overhead of stopping
> and starting Java all the time. When you're making loads of Exemplar
> schemas, this matters.
>
> i bet some of you are thinking "oh do go away and stop
> being so nerdy".....
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