Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 10:56:54 +0200 From: Gabor Kovesdan <gabor@FreeBSD.org> To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: doceng@FreeBSD.org, doc@FreeBSD.org, www@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [CALL FOR REVIEW] doc and www converted to XML Message-ID: <50334D56.6020809@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1208201720330.84148@wonkity.com> References: <50326A70.5020009@FreeBSD.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1208201640430.84148@wonkity.com> <5032C4BE.5080209@FreeBSD.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1208201720330.84148@wonkity.com>
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Em 21-08-2012 02:16, Warren Block escreveu: > Agreed. I think the primary benefit would be taking advantage of a > toolchain that someone else maintains. I don't know how well it would > work for us. The nice thing is that with DocBook XML, the choice > becomes available. I'm not saying either that it is useless. It can be a good source of ideas, I just wouldn't adopt it as is. >> Anyway, FOP is the best free renderer out for PDF but it depends on >> Java. Publican also uses FOP. Personally, I think we should get a >> compromise and depend on Java or otherwise we never will have modern >> features and outlook in our PDF documents. > > With OpenJDK, Java is a lot less of a hassle than previously. I'm not following the OpenJDK development these days. Does it require any bootstrap JDK to build? And once built, can we distribute it freely as a normal package? Gabor
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