RE: docbook2* vs db2*

[Gregory Leblanc <GLeblanc at cu-portland dot edu>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Galassi [mailto:rosalia@galassi.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2000 3:34 PM
> To: docbook-tools-discuss@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject: Re: docbook2* vs db2*
> 
>     David> Thanks - I have been traveling. By the way, here was my
>     David> reply to the thread which I sent to Mark privately:
> 
>     David> I understand the database connection and the idea that you
>     David> can alias, tab complete, or rename even... but I am
>     David> thinking of the writer who, may not be very Linux/UNIX
>     David> savvy who has finally learned DB Tools and now finds that
>     David> db2html does nothing. Its a small learning curve yes - but
>     David> it *is* usability.... and that concerns me as I am one of
>     David> those people who have to answer that question over and over
>     David> again.
> 
> I kind of agree with you, which is why I plan for it to be an
> extremely slow phase-out of the old names.
> 
> I guess that as long as we find packages in remote places that still
> directly invoke db2html we will continue to carry the old script
> names.

I understand this argument, but I figure it's not worthwhile, especially
after the total screw up that got Cees into trouble with "SGML tools".  I'd
rather make it as un-ambiguous as possible, and avoid things like trying to
use it to convert a db2 table into html (or using sgmltools to convert
MathML into HTML).