About the future format for LFS

[Ken Moffat]

On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 04:27:41PM -0400, William Immendorf wrote:
> 
> Here's my plan for the future of the LFS format:
> 
> 1. Use Relax NG instead of DTDs. It offers more customatibility than DTDs. And if you're sick of XML, you can use RNCs. (Relax NG Compact Syntax) You can also put elements from Docbook 5.0 in and take out ones you don't want. Also, you can create new elements easy. Go read http://www.relaxng.org/tutorial-20011203.html and http://www.relaxng.org/compact-tutorial-20030326.html if you want to learn about Relax NG.
> 
> 2. Create a namespace for Relax NG. Such as "http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/rng".
> 
> 3. Generate the book using PHP. That will allow for diffrent versions of the book.
> 
> 4. Implent PM in the versions of the book. Like, DESTDIR, symlinking, RPM, DPKG, Slackware .tgz; to name a few.
> 
> That is my plan for the future format of LFS. If you want to view the Docbook RNG which we will base on, here are both versions:
> 
> http://www.docbook.org/xml/5.0/rng/docbookxi.rng and http://www.docbook.org/xml/5.0/rng/docbookxi.rnc

 If this happens to be the path chosen by the community, what effect
will it have on editors ?  In particular, how will it alter what we
have to do to locally render our changes before we commit them ?

 And is "If you want to view the Docbook RNG which we will base on"
an expression of your hopes, or a decision by Gerard ?  It sounds
horrendously definitive ("we will do this") when in my opinion the
discussions earlier this year failed to find any consensus,

 The thought of using php in a 'distro' where no-one pays much
attention to security fills me with horror.

ĸen
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