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Date:      Sat, 13 Jun 2009 22:06:52 +1200
From:      James Butler <sweetnavelorange@gmail.com>
To:        Joel Dahl <joel@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Antonio Gonz?lez Castro <agoca80@gmail.com>, Roman Divacky <rdivacky@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, cpghost <cpghost@cordula.ws>, Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
Subject:   Re: RFC: C version of devd daemon.
Message-ID:  <f0dd9eb90906130306s50d138d9p15f85189b0d3c98e@mail.gmail.com>
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2009/6/13 Joel Dahl <joel@freebsd.org>:
> Roman Divacky skrev:
>>
[snip]
>>
>> clang will ultimately support C++ just fine. dont forget devd
>> is not the only C++ code in our src. we also have groff and
>> libstd++
>
> Kristaps Dzonsons has been working on a groff replacement called mdocml f=
or
> some time. =C2=A0It's small compared to groff, written in C and ISC-licen=
sed.
> =C2=A0And it's fast too. =C2=A0:-)

This look like an interesting project, but someone would need to write
an -ms support library to deal with the files in
/usr/src/share/doc/papers. The *roff implementations from opensolaris
or "heirloom" unix have also been mentioned time-to-time as possible
replacements for groff.

-James Butler



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