From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Bischoff To: Gerald Pfeifer Cc: docbook-tools-discuss@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com:/pub/docbook-tools/README Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 06:14:00 -0000 Message-ID: <39E1C47A.6FD8DAEA@cybercable.tm.fr> References: X-SW-Source: 2000-q4/msg00015.html Message-ID: <20001009061400.EzzIKKGiw1kgzqXAzE-xzC9jQF7ckhZHOlCQ_HHLOS4@z> Gerald Pfeifer wrote: > > Do you still maintain this package? Current maintainers are Mark Galassi and me. > > o The README file only mentions RPMs (s/RPMS/RPMs/, by the way) for Red > > Hat, and fails to mention where to obtain the actual sources. RPMS is the standardized name for the directory holding the RPMs used by rpm ;-) so capitalization was correct. The actual sources are in SOURCES/, according to the same standards. In fact it's a working copy and the real sources come from many origins upstream, including the one Norm mentions. Reminder: you can find all those directories in ftp://sourceware.cgnus.com/pub/docbook-tools/new-trials . BTW Mark: it's time they move to docware/? I think the new versions are stable enough by now. > > o Moreover, it refers to sourceware.cygnus instead of sources.redhat. I just gave the above address a try and it works. > > o What is new-trials? (I found out now, but this should go to README > > as well, IMO.) Or new-trials/ moves to docware/ and becomes the official current release ;-). > > o I failed to find documentation on how to install all this, that is, > > in which order, with which options, etc., on the web page. This was already mentioned recently here. I did such a page for KDE at http://i18n.kde.org/doc/install.html and we should definitely adapt it to the sourceware web pages but so far I had not the time to do that (and I don't even know if I have the rights). So the web pages are completly outdated. Mark, your opinion on this? > > o Those systems I use most of the time (Solaris, FreeBSD) do not use RPM, > > is there also a nice .tar.gz available which features a nice configure > > script? Each package now (since last week) comes with its individal makefile as a patch. Not all already use configure, but Mark convinced me to do that too. Why are these Makefiles patches? Because upstream most of this stuff is not unix-specific and works for Windows as well. I'm currently doing a tgz package for slackware with a slackware guy. So it's likely we will have both tgz and RPM - if he doesn't resign first ;-). I don't know if this tgz package will adapt to other non-software-package-aware unices like FreeBSD and Solaris. -- Éric Bischoff - Documentation and Localization Caldera (Deutschland) GmbH - Linux for eBusiness Tel: +49 9131 7192 300 - Fax: +49 9131 7192 399 http://www.caldera.de/