Quoting Dave Pawson <[email protected]>:

I'm not best to judge that. I've not had much success with it
since it changed from a 'complete' installation.
Nor am I sure Windows users would appreciate changing 'environment'
or installing such a big item?


This is definitely a point to think about for many. My Cygwin installation at work weighs in at 1GB, but it contains the cruft of several years. A fresh bare-bones installation is a lot slimmer than that.


1) A suggested location (or even a 'base') for those without admin rights

This would be ~/bin on Unixish systems, wouldn't it?

2) Batch/script files to run them for docbook
3) Optional: a make file or ant script

These would certainly fill a void. There is no reason why everyone has to invent his own scripts and makefiles. Modding existing ones would make it a lot easier to get started.

4) A partial catalog file  to start things off
5) A catalog.manager file


This is why I'd advocate to use packaging systems, if at all possible. Every self-respecting distro (including Cygwin) uses a tool like xmlcatalog to manage XML and SGML catalogs whenever a relevant package is added or removed. It should simply not be necessary for an author writing DocBook documents to fiddle with these.

regards,
Markus

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