Re: [xmlroff] xmlroff status -- 2003-03-21

[Tim W. <tw...@re...>]

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.
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