On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Andrew McIntyre <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Jean T. Anderson <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> I did some checking and that file has been in the subversion respository >> since April 2005, added in revision 161353 with the log message "Add single >> page HTML output to derby doc build." -- in other words, ever since we >> started using DITA to build the docs, so I expect it to be in all >> distributions starting with 10.1. I'll check with Andrew next week to see if >> he remembers more of the story around this file. Or maybe one of the other >> committers on this list who have tweaked this file can comment? >> >> In the meantime, while we untangle the story to all our satisfaction, anyone >> who further distributes the derby product should, of course, follow the >> advice of their lawyer. If there's any concern about this file, then one >> option would be to omit the single book HTML file from your distribution -- >> perhaps just include the PDF file or link to the single book HTML file on >> the apache site. >> >> regards, >> >> -jean > > Hi Jean, > > We had been using this file to generate single-page HTML documentation > for test and review during the DITA conversion since before the docs > were contributed to Apache. I checked it in when I was moving the doc > build machinery into Subversion. In retrospect, I probably shouldn't > have checked it in, but when someone went to modify it is when we had > the original discussion. There should at least be an entry for it in > the doc-src NOTICES. I can remove the file if it's a problem though, > as the file could be downloaded directly to the release builder's > machine by Ant. Also, there are other, free options for converting > PDFs to HTML files. > > - andrew
I think we should probably get rid of this file, and we should really avoid using it altogether. Is there anyone who has the skill to replace this file? Myrna
