[csw-maintainers] docbook, dependencies, what do we want...?

Trygve Laugstøl trygvel at opencsw.org
Tue Dec 23 23:33:39 CET 2008


Gary Law wrote:
> 2008/12/22 Ben Walton <bwalton at opencsw.org <mailto:bwalton at opencsw.org>>
> 
> 
>     Hi All,
> 
> 
> Hi Ben
> 
> I've ported Docbook to Solaris before, and getting the toolchain up and 
> running is a pig, so well done for volunteering to look at this. I'd go 
> for the lowest maintenance option that delivers a working package. Given 
> the 'fire and forget' principles of opencsw I'd suggest you take the 'it 
> just works' option of dbsgmltoolbox  
> <http://freshmeat.net/projects/dbsgmltoolbox/>failing that, go with with 
> the openjade dependency. I don't like the 'register if it is there' 
> option, it will give variable results based on what else is installed 
> already, which I don't like.

Ben; I'm not really sure what the overall implications of the choices 
really mean so I'd go for what Gary proposes here and tackle the problem 
later on if someone has the energy to go through it.

--
Trygve



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