[boost] [Boostbook] Getting Started download packages for Windows without Cygwin

From: Edward Diener (eldiener_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-12-01 20:07:19

In Boostbook in the getting started documentation, the download for 
xsltproc for Windows without Cygwin lists the link 
http://www.meta-comm.com/engineering/boost/xsltproc-win32.zip . While 
this does get one a zip file including xsltproc.exe and DLLs needed by 
it, the implementation which it has is buggy.

The implementation includes the files xsltproc.exe, iconv.dll, 
libexslt.dll, libxml2.dll, libxslt.dll, and zlib1.dll.

The latest versions of these in the appropriate distributions for 
Windows fix the bugs in the distribution above. The distribution above 
should be replaced by the appropriate files from the latest versions for 
iconv, libxml2, libxslt, and zlib. The latest versions of these 
individual distributions can be retrieved from 
http://www.zlatkovic.com/pub/libxml/ .

Keeping the buggy version at the metacomm site simply means that other 
programmers hoping to use xsltproc to build Boost documentation in 
Boostbook and Quickbook format will just fail intermittently with the 
buggy version. To whomever is in charge of updating the 
xsltproc-win32.zip in the link above, I will be glad to send via e-mail 
the xsltproc-win32.zip which works correctly to replace the buggy 
version or, if given an ftp address with write access, I will be glad to 
upload the correct version, which contains the latest files.