more reliable than using the $Revision$ expansion
- $RELEASE is no longer needed; we can just use $VERSION now

- add a comment explaining what pkglist.html is for

wrong, and commontex/ needed to be added.

absolute paths as input.

db that is opened.  DB_THREAD and DB_INIT_LOCK allow for multithreaded
access.  DB_PRIVATE prevents the DBEnv from using the filesystem
(making it only usable by this process; and in this implementation
using one DBEnv per bsddb database)

fewer changes to make to version numbers after a release.

* Fix entry order:
  -  >>> before ...
  - __slots__ in the S section (like __future__ is in the F section)

Need to test the repaired(?) link to Guido's webpage.

Still needs to have the module reference links made relative to
the module directory instead of the tut directory.  That will
require Fred's magic touch.

Will backport to 2.3 myself.

Will backport to 2.3

contents of an \item should not be enclosed in a group!

directories identified in the TEXINPUTS environment variable.
I think this is the last part of the fix for the version number
problems seen in the documentation for the 2.3.1 release.

also applied to release23-maint.

Note that aclocal.m4 can go away when autoconf 2.58 is out.

commontex/

better explain what's happening.

(commontex/), leaving only style support files in texinputs/.  This makes
texinputs/ part of the formatting tools while commontex/ is strictly part
of the actual documentation.

- make TEXINPUTS work the way it's supposed to in TeX-ish tools

that it works for all targets.

The issue here is that there are two different levels in the directory
tree at which we execute mkhowto, so we can't define it just once
using a relative path (at least not with the current implementation
and Makefile structure).  We use the GNUish $(shell) function here to
work around that restriction by identifying mkhowto using an absolute
path.

[2.3 bugfix candidate]

other application

Closes SF# 812152

Baskport candidate for release23-main

mostly only references glossary entries.

  "classic" class objects
  [partially fixes SF bug #453684]

- add note that new-style classes can use descriptors to implement
  instance variables in different ways

Forward ported from release23-maint.

Already 'backported' to release23-maint.

whole main page.

Support 2.3 and 2.4 docs in HTMLHelp format.

Already 'backported' to release-23maint.