Guillaume Melquiond wrote:
Le jeudi 07 juin 2007 à 17:02 +0400, Vladimir Prus a écrit :
Concerning "using boostbook", having to specify the directories is a bit annoying. As a regular user of DocBook, my catalog files for DocBook are already properly configured and BoostBook should not override them with its own version.
Can you clarify that? Are you suggesting that you should be able to provide the name of your existing catalog file instead? I'm not sure that's good idea -- most users of BoostBook are not experts in writing catalog files, so having just to specified DTD and XSLT directories is simpler.
You make it sound like both configuration methods would necessarily be exclusive and only one can be used. If it is so, then I agree the current solution is better.
Anyway, what I meant was a bit different. My /etc/xml/catalog file is properly configured and xsltproc automatically reads it to get the location of all my catalogs (including DocBook). By defining the XML_CATALOG_FILES environment variable, bjam prevents xsltproc to read its configuration file. As a consequence, xsltproc does not find the DocBook files anymore and tries to download them.
Given that downloading them is pretty much always bad idea, maybe we should just not use XML_CATALOG_FILES at all for using boostbook ; Doug? - Volodya