From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Galassi To: docbook-tools-discuss@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: docbook2* vs db2* Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 06:36:00 -0000 Message-id: <764s4ukqsw.fsf@odie.lanl.gov> References: <76aeemtlxh.fsf@odie.lanl.gov> X-SW-Source: 2000/msg00309.html David> Thanks - I have been traveling. By the way, here was my David> reply to the thread which I sent to Mark privately: David> I understand the database connection and the idea that you David> can alias, tab complete, or rename even... but I am David> thinking of the writer who, may not be very Linux/UNIX David> savvy who has finally learned DB Tools and now finds that David> db2html does nothing. Its a small learning curve yes - but David> it *is* usability.... and that concerns me as I am one of David> those people who have to answer that question over and over David> again. I kind of agree with you, which is why I plan for it to be an extremely slow phase-out of the old names. I guess that as long as we find packages in remote places that still directly invoke db2html we will continue to carry the old script names. I am now beginning to work on automake support for docbook, which would make things a lot easier.