Appendix A: Document History

The exact file history is recorded in the manual module in our CVS tree; see http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=9028

Revision History
0.1	2 Nov 2003	PV	First draft published under the title How to get and build the Firebird manual module.
0.2	31 Jan 2004	PV	Entered sources in CVS.
1.0	8 Mar 2004	PV	First official release on Firebird website.
1.1	26 Feb 2005	PV	The following changes have accumulated between March 2004 and Feb. 2005: Added note on error messages during PDF build. Added info on building subsets and non-English sets. Added note on need to post-process PDF builds. Changed title to Getting and building the Firebird manual module. Numerous minor improvements. Added document history and revision number. Licensed this work under the Public Documentation License.
1.1.1	8 April 2005	PV	Added some titleabbrevs for presentational purposes. Contents as such unchanged.
1.2	9 Feb 2006	PV	Removed “Firebird” from title of 2nd section. Added information on where to get the build libraries, since we don't commit those to CVS anymore. Created subsections for build parameters; added information on building other base sets and setting parameters in `build.xml`. Changed docwritehowto `link` to `ulink`, as the articles will be in separate PDFs from now on.
1.2.1	15 May 2006	PV	Replaced `cvs.sf.net` (3x) and `cvs.sourceforge.net` (6x) with `firebird.cvs.sourceforge.net` to reflect new situation at SF. Also added “on one line” above two examples that are now line-wrapped in the PDF.
1.3	17 Jul 2006	PV	Changed all `sectN` elements to `section`. Shortened ID of Introduction and assigned IDs to its child sections. Spelling matters: RDMS -> RDBMS, parallell -> parallel, OS'es -> OSes, CD's -> CDs, wil -> will, envvar -> envar, linewrapped -> line-wrapped. In section SSH checkout using command line CVS, 3rd listitem: converted `<quote>` around “username” to `<replaceable>`, changed “SF username” to “SF user name”, and also wrapped “username” in the command example in a `<replaceable>`. In section SSH checkout using other clients, item cvsroot: wrapped “username” in a `<replaceable>`. Gave the note in Building the HTML and PDF docs a title, and added a sentence to the second listitem. Corrected rev. 1.1.1 date in document history: 2004 -> 2005. Added large section on improving the PDF.
1.4	3 Aug 2006	ND	Added warnings about firewalls and port 2401 plus how to cope when SourceForge changes your password.
1.4.1	23 Aug 2006	PV	Added warning about not checking out over a pre-existing local copy.