From: Tim W. <tw...@re...> - 2003-03-22 10:20:10
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On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 08:28:10AM +0000, Tony Graham wrote: > > > A by-product of xmlroff being open-source is that I am scheduled = to > > > taper off my involvement with xmlroff over the six months followi= ng > > > its release: if xmlroff hasn't been picked up other developers > > > within six months, Sun isn't going to prop it up. > >=20 > > I think it's a pretty exciting and useful project, so I > > don't expect it to die off. I'm not sure what you mean by > > "release", though; could you clarify? Does that mean 1.0, or > > is it something that has already happened? If it is in the > > future, do you have an estimate of when it might mappen? >=20 > Released to public source. The clock started ticking when the > availablility of the xmlroff code was announced in February. Right > now I'm officially down to 80% working on xmlroff. I think that vendor packagers that would otherwise start looking at code are probably put off right now by the fact that PangoPDF isn't ported to gnome-print yet, and so can't be redistributed in a working state in a commercial distribution as I understand it (IANAL). :-( Tim. */ |