From kde-core-devel Sat May 01 19:30:32 2010 From: Luigi Toscano Date: Sat, 01 May 2010 19:30:32 +0000 To: kde-core-devel Subject: Re: DocBook XML & XSL: work in progess, new dependencies Message-Id: <4BDC8158.3070705 () tiscali ! it> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=127274277322302 Alexander Neundorf wrote: > On Saturday 01 May 2010, Luigi Toscano wrote: >> Hi, >> I'm currently working (with Albert) to remove the embedded copies of >> DocBook XML and XSL (http://www.docbook.org/) from kdelibs/kdoctools. This >> change (if accepted) will introduce two new dependencies (see below). >> I plan to complete this task before SC 4.5 will be released, but I won't be >> able to commit all the changes before the dependency freeze. > ... >> Any comments/remarks? > > Only "Halbwissen" (half knowledge ?) here: > > back in the early KDE 2 days getting that SGML and docbook stuff working was a > major PITA, nothing worked, stuff had to be patched, etc. Then something was > changed, and suddenly it just worked. > I suspect that this change may have been to include these embedded copies in > kdelibs. But in the meantime DocBook XML & related XSLT have stabilized, while they were under heavy development eight years ago (when XML and XSLT were the Big New Technology :) I can (almost) guarantee that step 1) will be transparent. Step 2 is a bit tricky, but the plan is to make sure that it will work as expected. > With this change, will we stay at the "it just works" level ? > > Is this the package I need for slackware ? > http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/slackware/slackware-13.0/slackware/ap/linuxdoc-tools-0.9.56-i486-5.txt > http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/slackware/slackware-13.0/slackware/ap/linuxdoc-tools-0.9.56-i486-5.txz Thanks, I failed to find Slackware packages. Unfortunately, the XSLT in the package are ok, but I see only XML DTDs V4.5: we still use V4.2. Regards -- Luigi