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RE: DocBook and OpenJade packages
- From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <g dot r dot vansickle at worldnet dot att dot net>
- To: <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 02:46:37 -0600
- Subject: RE: DocBook and OpenJade packages
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-apps-owner@cygwin.com
> [mailto:cygwin-apps-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf Of Jon Foster
> Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 9:23 AM
> To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
> Subject: DocBook and OpenJade packages
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I've recently installed the DocBook text processing system under CygWin.
> This was quite fiddly, as there are many small tools that have to be
> downloaded and configured.
>
Holy bejesus you can say that again. I spent way too much time trying to do
this myself with close to zero luck.
> I'm willing to volunteer to produce and maintain proper CygWin packages for
> these tools, so that they can be easily installed by just choosing the
> packages in the setup program.
>
> * Is this something you'd like?
I most definitely would.
> * Is anybody currently working on this?
>
Not me. As I said I had done some work in this direction, but with so little to
show for it after much too much dinking around, I gave up a while ago.
[snip]
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Gary R. Van Sickle
Brewer. Patriot.