Re: ITP: lib XT : XML/XSL transformations in Java
[Followup on debian-sgml only, Cc: Branden if you reply, because I don't know
if he is on debian-sgml.]
On Monday 28 June 1999, at 15 h 36, the keyboard of Branden Robinson
<branden@ecn.purdue.edu> wrote:
> > XT's licence is MIT X11.
>
> Oh boy, is that ever a terrible name.
XT => XML Transformation
The name is clear for all XML/XSL users :-)
> You know how many people are going to confuse XT with Xt, the X Toolkit
> Intrinsics?
XT only gets the licence in common with Xt. Otherwise, Debian already has two
packages "blast" (unrelated) :-)
> It gets worse. You say it's actually called "lib XT"?
Don't worry, it is written in Java, so the actual name of the package will be
lib-xt-java.
> How well is it going to play with the following?
>
> /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.a
> /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so
Since the binary package is a set of Java classes (bytecode), I don't think ld
will confuse anything :-)
> How widely deployed is this stuff already? Is there any hope the upstream
> author(s) might consider a name change?
The world of SGML is very closed, X11 is not something they know, XT is
developed on MS-Windows...
> For that matter, Xp is sometimes used to refer to the X Print Extension;
> but that is in far less common usage than Xt is.
XP = XML Parser :-) The Debian package will be lib-xp-java.
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