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Re: Evolution of the DocBook tools
- To: Gregory Leblanc <GLeblanc at cu-portland dot edu>
- Subject: Re: Evolution of the DocBook tools
- From: Eric Bischoff <ebisch at cybercable dot tm dot fr>
- Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 17:59:31 +0100
- CC: "'Jorge Godoy'" <godoy at conectiva dot com dot br>, docbook-tools-discuss at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Organization: Caldera Deutschland
- References: <A5F46F4ED18FD211ABEE00105AC6CF077F7CD0@email.cu-portland.edu>
Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> [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 best is to offer the choice.
> > 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.
Already done (the .tar.gz and the .spec)
Rest of the discussion on the new list please.
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