From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 25 22:21:42 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8837F106566B for ; Tue, 25 May 2010 22:21:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@eitanadler.com) Received: from mail-gx0-f226.google.com (mail-gx0-f226.google.com [209.85.217.226]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F0B28FC0C for ; Tue, 25 May 2010 22:21:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk26 with SMTP id 26so2737197gxk.13 for ; Tue, 25 May 2010 15:21:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.231.156.1 with SMTP id u1mr7108243ibw.46.1274826100258; Tue, 25 May 2010 15:21:40 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.231.148.136 with HTTP; Tue, 25 May 2010 15:21:20 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4BFC00E7.1060307@feral.com> References: <201005251450.o4PEo9tF099503@fire.js.berklix.net> <4BFC004F.1090101@elischer.org> <4BFC00E7.1060307@feral.com> From: Eitan Adler Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 01:21:20 +0300 Message-ID: To: Matthew Jacob Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GSoC: BSD text tools X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 22:21:42 -0000 On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 7:55 PM, Matthew Jacob wrote: > On 5/25/2010 9:52 AM, Julian Elischer wrote: >> >> On 5/25/10 8:33 AM, Eitan Adler wrote: >>>> >>>> No. Do not remove groff or associated tools from /usr/src ! >>>> Roff has been in Unix /usr/src since '77 or earlier. >>>> A lot of people use tools from that descendancy as production tools. >>> >>> So? If it isn't a very commonly used tool and isn't necessary for 99% >>> of cases I don't seem the harm of removing it from base and making it >>> a port? >> >> BSD has always =C2=A0been ab;e to produce it's documentation as part of = its >> build >> >> Please keep this true. > This is what mdocml will be for. I never advocated removing the utilities required for building documentation from the base - just the soon to be superfluous groff utility (once the GSOC project is done). --=20 Eitan Adler