[CALL FOR REVIEW] doc and www converted to XML

[Warren Block]

On Tue, 21 Aug 2012, Gabor Kovesdan wrote:

> Em 21-08-2012 02:16, Warren Block escreveu:
>> Agreed.  I think the primary benefit would be taking advantage of a
>> toolchain that someone else maintains.  I don't know how well it would
>> work for us.  The nice thing is that with DocBook XML, the choice
>> becomes available.
>
> I'm not saying either that it is useless. It can be a good source of
> ideas, I just wouldn't adopt it as is.
>
>>> Anyway, FOP is the best free renderer out for PDF but it depends on
>>> Java. Publican also uses FOP. Personally, I think we should get a
>>> compromise and depend on Java or otherwise we never will have modern
>>> features and outlook in our PDF documents.
>>
>> With OpenJDK, Java is a lot less of a hassle than previously.
>
> I'm not following the OpenJDK development these days. Does it require
> any bootstrap JDK to build?

Apparently so.  The java/openjdk6 port has a build dependency on 
diablo-jdk16.

> And once built, can we distribute it freely as a normal package?

>From http://openjdk.java.net/faq/

   "GPL v2 for almost all of the virtual machine, and GPL v2 + the
   Classpath exception for the class libraries and those parts of the
   virtual machine that expose public APIs."