Hi everyone,
I wanted to make a separate email thread directly about this topic, we need to
have an organized game plan on how to deal with dtdocbook going forward. A few
ideas have been brought up, now lets come to an agreement. My personal thoughts
on the subject are as follows, as some of you may know, I am pretty adamant on
keeping the original toolset to the best of our abilities, however duplicate
code and obsolete system support are not included in that support. So I am
highly against not building the documentation, some of our documentation is
better than modern desktops today. I think we should go forward as such:
Update our documentation to docbook 5.1 and any sgml files to xml
Use docbook-xsl to generate manpages as such:
https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/dother.en.html#manpagexml
As I recalled this document from trying to package CDE for debian (still an
ongoing project, but migration to the gnu autotools is a must), I saw the
docbook-to-man program (https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/docbook-to-man), and it
turns out that there has been a separately maintained fork of dbtoman split
from the CDE project. I am CCing the maintainer of it if he would like to take
a look at our copy of the code and pick out some contributions (tcl support and
whatnot).
As for now, I will not be touching dtdocbook at all until the conversion to
modern standards is finished. Thoughts?
Thank you for your time,
-Chase
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