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Subject: Re: [Boost-build] Fixing the building of documentation on Linux
From: Daniel James (dnljms_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-04-14 14:31:20


On 14 April 2010 18:07, Vladimir Prus <ghost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> Philipp Thomas wrote:
>
>> b) needs a java lib from SUN which has a license that is
>> unacceptable to a Linux distributor.
>
> I have sun jre on a kubuntu box, so I presume you mean "for some Linux
> distributors"?

I assumed he was referring to XEP which is closed source. Red Hat's
docbook based documentation system uses fop (also Java, but open
source), but fop doesn't work well for our documentation.

https://fedorahosted.org/publican/

Daniel


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