Re: [opendx-dev] Re: Documentation guides opensource ?

[Gregory D Abram]

We weren't intending to withhold the docs, its just that we didn't figure
the Bookmaster source was useful to anyone but us (and then only marginally
so - the conversions from Bookmaster were a black art I never knew) and
didn't have the resources to convert it to anything else more useful.  So
since the docs were freely available in useful form and not useful in
source form, I guess I just never got around to releasing them.  As it is,
I think the current HTML source has to be considered definitive, and if
anyone is interested in converting to a more standard form, that ought to
be the place to start.   David, are you amenable to putting your version
into CVS?

Greg



                                                                                
                                               
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What are you going to edit it with? Docbook was a strange internal
IBM application.

>David Thompson wrote:
>We only have access to the guides as end products not as source. The
>originals are still held by IBM in DocBook format and are not
>distributed. That is why all new editing has been done in the HTML
>
>Rather peculiar that IBM has agreed to release the code as opensource,
>but not its documentation.
>
>Has someone ever officially asked IBM for the documentation sources?
>
>I can't imagine IBM would be so particular about these sources, as it
>gradually will get out-of-date, if not updated for the opensource code
>modifications.
>
>Rob.


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