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Re: jade.tgz
- To: bsimon at ctam dot com dot au
- Subject: Re: jade.tgz
- From: Mark Galassi <rosalia at lanl dot gov>
- Date: 02 Dec 1999 19:31:12 -0700
- Cc: DocBook Tools Discussion <docbook-tools-discuss at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- References: <38470979.AC100E25@ctam.com.au>
Brendan> I unpacked jade.tgz and had a look at the README and in
Brendan> the doc/ directory. It appears to me that this archive
Brendan> is actually the SP package. The VERSION file says 1.3.3.
Brendan> The latest version of Jade is 1.2.1 and the latest
Brendan> version of SP is 1.3.4.
Brendan> Now I wonder I'm getting so confused. I think the
Brendan> jade.tgz should be renamed sp.tgz. I'm still confused as
Brendan> to why there is a jade directory and why the binary is
Brendan> called jade. Something doesn't quite gel.
Brendan> Note: The Jade home page says that a "compatible" version
Brendan> of SP comes with Jade but it may not be the latest
Brendan> version of SP.
I think you answered your own question here, but you didn't notice
because the jade/SP thing is weird.
SP can be obtained alone (in which case it will have a slightly higher
version number), but it can also be built as part of jade, and is
bundled with jade, and almost everyone gets it in the jade package.
The reason you see both SP and jade is that that is the jade package,
and it has SP and jade in it.
Don't worry: you are getting an OK jade distribution. Future packages
will probably be based on OpenJade, which has moved beyond since James
Clark stopped maintaining jade.