From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Bischoff To: Jochem Huhmann , docbook-tools-discuss@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: Re : db2??????? vs. SGMLTools2 vs. what else? Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 06:36:00 -0000 Message-id: <38B40C05.FD198BAE@cybercable.tm.fr> References: <951281049.19725.ezmlm@sourceware.cygnus.com> <20000223085415.B611@ciberia.es> <38B3ABD6.71623993@cybercable.tm.fr> X-SW-Source: 2000/msg00080.html Jochem Huhmann wrote: > > * Eric Bischoff wrote: > > My distribution will be used by Caldera OpenLinux and KDE project. I'm > > proposing to make it the standard docbook-tools as well, if you > > agree. Just let me know. > > Could you be so kind and put the package up on ftp? Maybe also as tar.gz > for all of us without a RPM-based Linux (or Linux at all). You should Caldera is a RPM-based distribution, so my packaging will probably be only profitable for those with RPM-based distributions, like the current DocBook tools that only offer a mirror of the source packages for those without RPM. Furthermore, I have been told the Debian project already did a very clean packaging of its own (seeking a greater compatibility with them could also be a concern, BTW). Of course the new db2* scripts do not depend on the packaging and I can send them to you. I don't want to put anything on KDE's ftp before I know my help proposal is accepted or refused here : as David said, there's no need to multiply the distributions. > also contact the Debian Project which might also be interested in this > (you will probably at least get some help in packing this up as > Debian-Package, which would be nice to have for a "standard > docbook-tool"). Also SuSE might be interested, since they have such > scripts of their own. Sure, we should at least seek a common directory layout. I think the reference version is here at the DocBook tools, so I won't start anything on my own before Mark gives his advice on the topic. > I would also decide on a new name for the tools, all this db2something > is quite confusing. What about "doctool"? Currently, the docbook-stylesheets package from the docbook-tools includes three things : 1 - Norman Walsh's modular stylesheets 2 - the db2* and install-catalog scripts 3 - some "glue" files like "cygnus-common.dsl" I think that (1) has to be packaged separately for modularity reasons, I suggest to rename (2) the "docbook-utils" (only a component of the docbook-tools), and to get rid of (3) because this kind of files imply a lot of assumptions on the way you are working. -- Eric Bischoff - Documentation and Localization Caldera (Deutschland) GmbH - Linux for Business! Tel: +49 9131 7192 300 - Fax: +49 9131 7192 399 http://www.caldera.de/