We still don't build or ship a PDF PuTTY manual by default, but we may
as well conveniently expose Halibut's ability to do so.
(I don't guarantee the resulting PDF is particularly pretty -- some of
our overlong code lines do go off the right margin currently.)
The standalone separate doc/Makefile is gone, replaced by a
CMakeLists.txt that makes 'doc' function as a subdirectory of the main
CMake build system. This auto-detects Halibut, and if it's present,
uses it to build the man pages and the various forms of the main
manual, including the Windows CHM help file in particular.
One awkward thing I had to do was to move just one config directive in
blurb.but into its own file: the one that cites a relative path to the
stylesheet file to put into the CHM. CMake builds often like to be
out-of-tree, so there's no longer a fixed relative path between the
build directory and chm.css. And Halibut has no concept of an include
path to search for files cited by other files, so I can't fix that
with an -I option on the Halibut command line. So I moved that single
config directive into its own file, and had CMake write out a custom
version of that file in the build directory citing the right path.
(Perhaps in the longer term I should fix that omission in Halibut;
out-of-tree friendliness seems like a useful feature. But even if I
do, I still need this build to work now.)
They were there mainly to distinguish from 16-bit Windows, which hasn't
been a thing since before a noticeable fraction of the userbase were
born, probably. These days the obvious comparison is with 64-bit
Windows.
Also tweak some wording to reflect that official PuTTY executables are
not necessarily 32-bit any more, and add some XXX-REVIEW-BEFORE-RELEASE
in the same vein.
Now we have licence.pl, it seems to me to make very good sense to have
it generate the Halibut form(s) of the licence and copyright year as
well as the source-code forms.
As a result, I believe _no_ copies of the licence text or copyright
date exist any more except for the master one in LICENCE - so I can
completely remove the checklist section about all the places to update
it, because there's only one. Hooray!
I've shifted away from using the SVN revision number as a monotonic
version identifier (replacing it in the Windows version resource with
a count of days since an arbitrary epoch), and I've removed all uses
of SVN keyword expansion (replacing them with version information
written out by Buildscr).
While I'm at it, I've done a major rewrite of the affected code which
centralises all the computation of the assorted version numbers and
strings into Buildscr, so that they're all more or less alongside each
other rather than scattered across multiple source files.
I've also retired the MD5-based manifest file system. A long time ago,
it seemed like a good idea to arrange that binaries of PuTTY would
automatically cease to identify themselves as a particular upstream
version number if any changes were made to the source code, so that if
someone made a local tweak and distributed the result then I wouldn't
get blamed for the results. Since then I've decided the whole idea is
more trouble than it's worth, so now distribution tarballs will have
version information baked in and people can just cope with that.
[originally from svn r10262]
We probably already require a new enough version of Halibut that this isn't
a problem; nevertheless, I've put it in a separate target for now.
[originally from svn r5595]
This was a bit rushed, and could doubtless be improved.
Also fix a couple of things I noted on the way, including:
- "pscp -ls" wasn't documented
- Windows XP wasn't mentioned enough
[originally from svn r5593]
line for every single .but file at the bottom of each page of the
HTML PuTTY docs. However, we can't _always_ replace that with a
single SVN revision, because there isn't always one available (SVN
still allows mixed working copies in which some files are
deliberately checked out against a different revision).
Hence, here's a mechanism for doing better. It uses `svnversion .'
to determine _whether_ a single revision number adequately describes
the current directory, and replaces all the version IDs with that if
so. If it can't do that, it uses the version IDs as before.
Also, this allows an explicit version string to be passed on the
make command line which will override _both_ these possibilities, so
that release documentation can be clearly labelled with the release
version number.
[originally from svn r4804]
This is mainly intended to make the documentation suitable for including in
distributions such as the Debian package, but won't be amiss on the web site
docs. It will look a bit out of place in the .HLP, but never mind.
[originally from svn r4690]
which is only included if you explicitly tell the docs Makefile to
do so. Also make it a relative reference, while we're at it.
[originally from svn r3524]
to give feedback. (I think the latter has suddenly become worthwhile
now we have the ability to distribute a help file; so people won't
have to come to the website for the feedback information.)
[originally from svn r1502]