Re: Re : db2??????? vs. SGMLTools2 vs. what else?

[Eric Bischoff <ebisch@cybercable.tm.fr>]

David Mason wrote:
> When you say the scripts are unmaintained I think you are wrong. Mark
> is the maintainer of DocBook Tools - DocBook Tools include those
> scripts.

Well, it's what I have been reading in all docbook tool packages. And
when I have been proposing a patch to db2ps to make it work with
alternate stylesheets, I never had any answer, but maybe Mark was too
busy to integrate this patch.

> Instead of announcing you are going to maintain those
> scripts, why not ask Marks if you can send some patches to him or get
> cvs access to make some changes. You can see by the number of people

Done. I've been asking this directly to Mark a few weeks ago. Again, no
answer. Mark may be on holliday, though. I did not want to make my
projects public, because I wanted to hear Mark's opinion before, but
people were wondering what existed as docbook tools, and some were
starting to say that they did not use them.

I don't think that CVS concurrent access for me would be a good idea,
because the changes are too radical to be done without approval from
Mark.

> already asking you for tarballs that this can cause a split in the
> project. I'd like to see more concentration on this project AND some
> new projects that do things differently. I would not like to see a
> project splinter and confuse. That is just my opinion.

You're perfectly right.

> Again, I am not flaming you, I am not upset at you, in fact,
> throughout our conversations over the year - I like you.. I too want

I love you too. Kiss me ;-)

> to see changes made to the scripts - hell I hack them up on my own
> machine and ignore the ones that ship anyway.

I just tried to do something simple, clean and robust that would need
less hacking.

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