While I was very pleased to see the announcement of the SGML/XML packages (XML and SGML processing is actually my primary use of Cygwin), I also have a few reservations about the packaging.
DSSSL and XSLT stylesheets: Different versions of stylesheets might need to co-exist, in my humble experience. Not easy with this directory layout. docbook-sgml-4.1, docbook-xml-4.1.2: Why bundle various DocBook versions into one package? They do not depend on each other. How do you intend to release forthcoming DocBook 4.2? sgml-base-1.01, xml-base-1.1: A bit messy. How are these resources related? If somebody wanted to add another bit, how would you release that? Please note that the effort to make a directory layout for XML and SGML part of the LSB [1] is now continued. There's a mailing list [2]. The latest proposal is, I believe, at [3] (and it was sorely lacking wrt. XML). By the way, the Debian distribution differs in a number of details [4]. [1] http://www.linuxbase.org/spec/refspecs/LSB_1.1.0/gLSB/book1.html [2] https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/lsb-xml-sgml [3] http://people.debian.org/~mrj/lsb-sgmlspec_cvs20020308/index.html [4] http://people.debian.org/~mrj/sgml-policy-draft/index.html kind regards Peter Ring
