Re: docbook IDE

[Joakim Ziegler <joakim helixcode com>]

On Sat, Jul 15, 2000 at 01:44:10AM +1000, Chuck Dale wrote:
> Wrote David C. Mason on Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 11:39:00AM -0400:
>> Chuck Dale <bug@aphid.net> writes:

>>> Last I checked Conglomerate is not dead. They are working on
>>> implementing all of it now. It seems that they are keen to make
>>> something really cool - evidenced by the quality of the prototype that
>>> is available at the moment.
 
>>> It would be awesome have an integrated editor/parser/stylesheet
>>> processor/viewer. Perhaps when Nautilus is doing DocBook you could just
>>> embed a Nautilus instance in an editor and call it an IDE..
 
>> Last I checked, that prototype had a date of 1999 and the ftp site
>> went away - where do you get the idea that it is being worked on?
 
> Ok perhaps I was just trying to be optimistic =)
 
> I have been on the mailing list for a while. A month or so back when
> someone asked about getting it working the key developers were there, and
> they indicated that the meaty version would be coming soonish. Didn't
> sound dead.
 
> But then again there hasn't been any traffic since then and Telsa says
> that talking to people a week ago it is stalled cause of time being
> elusive.

To clear up any confusion about this, no, Conglomerate isn't dead, but it is
indeed sleeping. Both Hans Petter and I work at Helix Code now, and time has
been very sparse lately.

However, we recently discussed what to do with the project, and agreed that
we will try to put together something that lets you edit XML files on disk
with arbitrary DTDs, and a few other features, thus making it pretty useful
for, say, people who use Emacs for DocBook now, and then do the extra fancy
features later. So we're definitely planning on starting work on it again, it
looks like work is going to start happening within a month or two.

In other words, don't hold your breath waiting, but it'll be ready at some
point.

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