abandoning jade

Murray Stokely murray at freebsdmall.com
Tue Aug 30 19:41:55 UTC 2005


On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 04:35:16AM +0900, Hiroki Sato wrote:
> Pav Lucistnik <pav at FreeBSD.org> wrote
>   in <1125401964.4959.28.camel at pav.hide.vol.cz>:
> 
> pa> Why we do still stick with jade, when better faster happier openjade is
> pa> available? If it's purely historical sentiment, isn't it time for a
> pa> global switch to openjade?
> 
>  IIRC, Murray said that OpenJade had a problem on rendering
>  the handbook in printable format some years ago.
>  Murray, is it correct?  If so, do you remember what the problem is?
>  If there is no longer the problem, I agree with switch to OpenJade.

There have historically been lots of problems with OpenJade.  Whoever
wants to make the change should verify that PDF versions of all of our
documents in the tree can build with OpenJade (and with/without index,
etc..).

If it works, great.  Just because it is on a sourceforge page doesn't
make it better maintained.  Hardly anyone was working on it when I had
a commit bit to the openjade sourceforge project.

	- Murray



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