Re: [Oorexx-devel] Possible Documentation Change

[Rick M. <obj...@gm...>]

Yeah, working on Windows is also a major plus for me too.

Rick

On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Mark Miesfeld <mie...@gm...> wrote:

> David,
>
> It's acceptable to me.  The reasons you stated for making the change seem
> valid.
>
> I have the same general questions as Rick.  With the additional
> question of exactly what needs to be done to use Publican on Windows?
>
> If it is fairly easy to set up on Windows, that adds a plus for me.
>
> --
> Mark Miesfeld
>
> On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 8:55 AM, David Ashley <w.d...@gm...>
> wrote:
> > All -
> >
> > I have added all the missing sections to the sample rxsock document. In
> > addition I tweaked a bunch of things to make the documents more
> > polished.
> >
> > There are still some page break problems but as I stated in a previous
> > email we will have to live with those.
> >
> > The documents are available at
> > http://build.oorexx.org/builds/release-candidates/.
> >
> > Publican is a really nice system once you get past the initial learning
> > curve. And now that I know how to deal with it it will be easy help
> > others get started. The other nice thing about the system is that it
> > runs on both Windows and Linux without any source code changes.
> >
> > The whole point with this exercise is that I am very concerned about the
> > future of the DocBook/DSSL system we use now. DSSL is not being
> > maintained and everyone is moving in other directions. Publican offers
> > the advantages of it being a DocBook/CSS system, it is maintained by Red
> > Hat, it is their strategic direction, and it is portable across multiple
> > platforms including Windows. And last, it does not take much effort to
> > fix up our documents to conform to Publican.
> >
> > So please let me know if this is an acceptable direction for us to take.
> >
> > David Ashley
> > ooRexx Team
> >
> >
> >
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