> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jon Foster
> Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 9:23 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 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]

--
Gary R. Van Sickle
Brewer.  Patriot.

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