From owner-dssslist@mulberrytech.com Sun Sep 27 14:06:32 1998 To: dssslist@mulberrytech.com Subject: PLUG: Jade 1.2 and DSSSL-related software available in Debian From: apharris@burrito.onshore.com (Adam P. Harris) Date: 27 Sep 1998 14:53:16 -0400
This is to announce that Jade 1.2 and other integrated DSSSL and SGML related packages are now available for Debian. I just uploaded the new jade 1.2; that packages should propogate into the Debian Slink (2.1) archive over the next day or so.
Features:
libsp, libgrove, libspgrove, and libstyle available as shared and static libraries (jade is now under 400k!)
all compiled with egcs' g++, and libstdc++2.9
SGML catalog integration (no need to manually register SGML Public Identifiers)
docbook (v3.0) and docbook-stylesheets (v1.3) available
other DSSSL or SGML related packages available: dsc, sgml-tools, expat, psgml, sdc, jadetex (new version will be available shortly), etc.
Both myself and other Debian developers have been trying hard to make Debian the premier platform for Linux-based (and soon, hurd-based) SGML and DSSSL development. We believe that Debian's open model of participation and our committment to system quality (as reflected in the Debian Policy) put us head-and-shoulders above any other Free systems out there. For more information on Debian see http://www.debian.org/.
If anyone is just curious in how to robustly compile jade for linux, I also invite them to inspect my patches, which are always available at http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/text/jade.html. Note that URL will take a day or so to come into sync with the version I uploaded last night.
If anyone has comments on other free SGML-based packages which they'd like to see in Debian, or questions about what Debian is all about, please feel free to email me directly.
.....A. P. Harris...apharris@onShore.com...<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
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