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@ -23,6 +23,8 @@ Writing and presenting Inform as a literate program was beyond the capabilities
of existing LP software, so a new system for LP called Inweb
has been spun off from Inform, and that has [its own repository](https://github.com/ganelson/inweb).
For brief news items, see [Ongoing work](working_notes.md).
## Licence and copyright
Except as noted, copyright in material in this repository (the "Package") is

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@ -27,6 +27,8 @@ Writing and presenting Inform as a literate program was beyond the capabilities
of existing LP software, so a new system for LP called Inweb
has been spun off from Inform, and that has [its own repository](https://github.com/ganelson/inweb).
For brief news items, see [Ongoing work](working_notes.md).
## Licence and copyright
Except as noted, copyright in material in this repository (the "Package") is

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@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ notably the MacOS app, which is being modernised to support Dark Mode.
### Kit metadata respecified as JSON (4 June 2022)
Kits are new in 10.1, and are documented in the Inbuild manual, which has been
rewritten today: see [A Guide to Kits](https://ganelson.github.io/inform/inbuild/M-agtk.html)
rewritten today: see [A Guide to Kits](https://ganelson.github.io/inform/inbuild/M-agtk.html).
The change today is that the "kit_metadata.txt" file has now changed format and
name, to become "kit_metadata.json". This JSON format is a work in progress and
@ -32,8 +32,8 @@ read, write and validate JSON files: see the new section [JSON](https://ganelson
You'll therefore need to pull the latest Inweb in order to build the latest Inform.
The current set of requirements for what Inbuild will read as resource metadata is
at [inform7/Internal/Miscellany/metadata.jsonr]. There are also a few semantic
constraints: see [JSON Metadata](https://ganelson.github.io/inform/supervisor-module/2-jm.html)
at [inform7/Internal/Miscellany/metadata.jsonr](inform7/Internal/Miscellany/metadata.jsonr).
There are also a few semantic constraints: see [JSON Metadata](https://ganelson.github.io/inform/supervisor-module/2-jm.html).
### Versioning policy for the built-in kits (4 June 2022)
@ -58,8 +58,11 @@ As a policy decision, the version numbers of these five kits are therefore going
to be the same as those of the main compiler. (Today, that's "10.1.0-beta+6V21".)
This is enforced by changes to the makescript used when updating the main compiler's
version number, which uses a new feature |-sync-kit-versions| of the Inpolicy tool.
For its implementation, see: [[Kit Versioning](https://ganelson.github.io/inform/inpolicy/2-kv.html)
version number, which uses a new feature of the Inpolicy tool:
inpolicy/Tangled/inpolicy -sync-kit-versions
For its implementation, see: [Kit Versioning](https://ganelson.github.io/inform/inpolicy/2-kv.html).
User-written kits not included in the Inform installation should not do this.
They won't be tied to particular compiler releases, and should have their own