On Saturday, January 25, Mark Johnson wrote: > On , January 25, Adam DiCarlo wrote: > > > > Well, I doubt we can make the FHS jump.
Yeah, they're pretty conservative, and for good reason. > > If we wanna start using /usr/share/xml even before the FHS blesses > > it, I think we should go ahead and do that. I agree with you here, Adam. And if FHS decides to add /usr/share/xml, they'd simply be following the 'adoption of effective practice' spec development procedure used by a number of standards group. IETF, comes to mind here. > > I'm kinda of the opinion that we *should* make that move, it seems to > > match what the rest of the world is doing. I don't know yet if it matches what other distros are doing, but I'm also of the opinion that we should definitely start the move to /usr/share/xml. FWIW, I'm getting some RedHat 8 CDs soon, after which I'll install it and report back as to whether they implement /usr/share/xml (as well as their xml catalog structure.) Still waiting to hear from SuSE... (Then again, I could simply ask Greg LeBlanc, who seems to have every distro installed. Greg, you lurking out there??) After that, I'll make a post to the FHS discuss list and try to re-open the discussion about adding /usr/share/xml[1] to the hierarchy, as well as modifying their statements regarding /etc/sgml[2] - which come right out of the stalled LSB-SGML policy draft. Ugh. I highly encourage any interested members of debian-sgml to join this list. It's relatively low traffic (a message every few days lately). You can sign up for the list here: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freestandards-fhs-discuss Thanks, Mark > IMO, /usr/share/xml seems inevitable. Really. I again agree with myself, here:) Cheers, Mark [1] See http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.2/fhs-4.11.html#4.11.7 for the FHS section on /usr/share/sgml [2] See http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.2/fhs-3.7.html#3.7.6 for the FHS section on /etc/sgml _____________________________________ Mark Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian XML/SGML <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: <http://dulug.duke.edu/~mark/> GPG fp: 50DF A22D 5119 3485 E9E4 89B2 BCBC B2C8 2BE2 FE81 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
