[publican-list] Publican 3.0 -- with DocBook 5 or without?

[Raphael Hertzog]

Hello,

On Tue, 28 Jun 2011, Ruediger Landmann wrote:
> However, we also face a major design decision. Publican was designed
> to support DocBook 4; now that DocBook 5 is out, do we want to move
> Publican to use that instead?

I think we should follow at some point, it's all a question of timing.

Last time I checked, there were very few good free software dealing
with Relax NG / Synchrotron (except some java implementation). Have
libxml2 and the associated tools caught up already?

In any case, I would suggest to make a last release based on docbook
4 and to keep around (an unofficial) branch for it, because some people
will take a lot of time to switch and it's always good to be able to
accept patches if some external contributors are providing them for their
own needs...

$0.02 from the Debian package maintainer

Cheers,
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