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List:       wine-devel
Subject:    Re: Wine CVS Documentation
From:       "John R . Sheets" <jsheets () codeweavers ! com>
Date:       2000-06-23 21:13:21
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On Thursday, June 22, 2000, Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
> 
> I do like DocBook as a source format.
> 
> However, regular users should not have to deal with DocBook in any way.

I think we can cover the users if we include the generated HTML (and
possibly generated flat text) in with the distribution (though not
necessarily in CVS).

> I had to do that earlier this year, and locating and installing all
> required programs and files (from source) on Solaris was annoying,
> and on FreeBSD it was a nightmare.

I don't doubt that at all.  DocBook/SGML still has a ways to go before
it becomes a solid, well-supported platform.  I think XML will help
spark that (there's also a DocBook/XML version).

John

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