java/44251: Create stylebook port

[Herve Quiroz]

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From: Herve Quiroz <herve.quiroz at esil.univ-mrs.fr>
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Cc: Herve Quiroz <herve.quiroz at esil.univ-mrs.fr>
Subject: Re: java/44251: Create stylebook port
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 15:19:58 +0200

 Ernst,
 
 I had a look at your distfile last night.
 
 The main problem is that xml-stylebook depends on Xalan and Xerces, so
 we have a cyclic dependency issue here. There is a solution though:
 install xml-stylebook as a binary port.
 
 But I have another solution in mind. Let me explain it:
 
 We could have two ports for xml-stylebook. The first one,
 xml-stylebook-jar would be a binary port that would only install
 xml-stylebook.jar (the JAR file could even be distfile as it will be the
 only file installed). Next, another port, xml-stylebook would depend on
 xml-stylebook-jar and install the whole xml-stylebook distribution (that
 is with docs for instance).
 
 The xerces-j port would depend on xml-stylebook-jar (BUILD_DEPENDS only)
 to be able to build its documentation from source.
 
 But then, there are some other JAR files that are needed by the xerces-j
 port and which are provided in the Xerces-J-tools-x.x.x.tgz distfile,
 such as xjava.jar (to provide the compile task supporting IBM JDKs,
 AFAIK) and resolver.jar. So we could possibly make a xerces-j-tools port
 that would install those JAR files as well as xml-stylebook.jar. It
 would be a binary port obviously (for cyclic dependency reasons).
 
 What do you think of this?
 
 Herve