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RE: Evolution of the DocBook tools
- To: 'Jorge Godoy' <godoy at conectiva dot com dot br>, Eric Bischoff <ebisch at cybercable dot tm dot fr>
- Subject: RE: Evolution of the DocBook tools
- From: Gregory Leblanc <GLeblanc at cu-portland dot edu>
- Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 08:42:45 -0800
- Cc: docbook-tools-discuss at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
Please, mail the list when that list is online, I'm enjoying this
discussion.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jorge Godoy [mailto:godoy@conectiva.com.br]
> Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2000 4:45 AM
> To: Eric Bischoff
> Cc: docbook-tools-discuss@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject: Re: Evolution of the DocBook tools
>
[snip]
> Which programs don't recognize the CATALOG keyword? Jade and OpenJade
> work with no problems. Programs that don't work aren't in accordance
> with the specifications. Should we support them or "brake" them and
> make the author improve their programs?
I'd break them, but I'm just a mean nasty guy...
> The problem with "iso-entities" is that some stylesheets refer to them
> on it's catalog. Making a patch in a packaged distribution (RPM, deb,
> etc.) is easy, but I don't know if it's good in a plain .tar.gz
> distribution (of course, a note saying that files were modified and
> the like would be enough).
When everything gets hashed out, just make a .tar.gz. I'm quite sure that
we can get a .spec file written for RPMs, either by myself or somebody who's
better at it. debs should be easy to make from there.
Greg
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