In a message dated 8/3/2009 6:50:13 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
writes:
On
08/03/2009 02:11 PM, DeanNelson wrote:
> Dave
> I have stayed away
from cygwin because I wanted to make sure that the
> users had something
simple. I keep a simple doctools tree that has all
> of the tools that I
need (FOP, Saxon, XSLTPROC, etc) and the users load
> it from
Subversion.
> I support both Windows and Linux, since most of the
content generators
> are Windows based and I use both. I created
identically named scripts to
> run the Docbook generation on both Win32
and Linux, which keeps the
> documentation simpler.
Neat. xxx.bat
and xxx.sh?
Yes. For example:
makepdf [docbook file] [stylesheet]
This only becomes a problem with users that have not used the DOS screen in
Windows. Unix folks use it just fine. Even the Windows folks have no problems
after they get to the DOS window.
> Since most of the tools are Java based,
I'm sure
that would satisfy 80% of users.
The only tools that are NOT Java based are the XSLTPROC & XMLLINT but
have executables in both Windows and Linux.
> the command calls are similar. I
> include
XSLTPROC & XMLLINT for win32 in my distribution because they are
>
available on most Linux distros but not Windows.
> Your experience
software developer is correct - it is a bit confusing at
> first, but
sloshing through Bob's book can clear up almost all issues
> and put him
on the right path.
It was the 7 hours he'd taken to google his way
round that
he objected to! I'm not even sure he'd found Bobs
write-up.
> I sometimes forget how much I struggled back when I
developed the
> system, and I am a software developer ;-)
Any
statement on availability Dean?
Yes, they could be made available.
Is
it something you maintain for your users?
Yes.
regards
--
Dave Pawson
XSLT XSL-FO
FAQ.
http://www.dpawson.co.uk
