Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 09:21:01 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Gabor Kovesdan <gabor@FreeBSD.org> Cc: doceng@FreeBSD.org, doc@FreeBSD.org, www@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [CALL FOR REVIEW] doc and www converted to XML Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1208210916330.91281@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <50334D56.6020809@FreeBSD.org> 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> <50334D56.6020809@FreeBSD.org>
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On Tue, 21 Aug 2012, Gabor Kovesdan wrote: > 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? Apparently so. The java/openjdk6 port has a build dependency on diablo-jdk16. > And once built, can we distribute it freely as a normal package? >From http://openjdk.java.net/faq/ "GPL v2 for almost all of the virtual machine, and GPL v2 + the Classpath exception for the class libraries and those parts of the virtual machine that expose public APIs."
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