abandoning jade

[Pav Lucistnik]

Murray Stokely píše v út 30. 08. 2005 v 12:41 -0700:
> 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.

Just tried to build Porter's Handbook into PDF with openjade and
jadetex, got 11 pages of garbage. Not good, not at all.

-- 
Pav Lucistnik <pav at oook.cz>
              <pav at FreeBSD.org>

And now something completely different.
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