Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 08:59:58 +1000 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Matthew Jacob <mj@feral.com> Subject: Re: GSoC: BSD text tools Message-ID: <20100525225958.GD11076@dereel.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTik6VBPCSiL4QlHpa5Tbt8PxlYnx2US5FkRGIHkl@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTik90k1HlsDJsIgRhCnAcU8_ympR15ZJcoL07A5m@mail.gmail.com> <201005251450.o4PEo9tF099503@fire.js.berklix.net> <AANLkTikz2m7LS0DC4i7tKFSHQIyZuCKSxiHWlyTHClhs@mail.gmail.com> <4BFC004F.1090101@elischer.org> <4BFC00E7.1060307@feral.com> <AANLkTik6VBPCSiL4QlHpa5Tbt8PxlYnx2US5FkRGIHkl@mail.gmail.com>
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--GpGaEY17fSl8rd50 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wednesday, 26 May 2010 at 1:21:20 +0300, Eitan Adler wrote: >> On 5/25/2010 9:52 AM, Julian Elischer wrote: >>> BSD has always =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). But groff *is* a tool required for building documentation. There are more documents than mdoc in the source tree. And there's no reason to remove groff just because you're introducing mdocml. mdocml is possibly a good idea; a better one IMO would be to replace the whole mdoc crud with something better, produce tools to format it, and leave groff the way it is. Then you could migrate the man pages gradually. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers. This message is digitally signed. See http://www.lemis.com/grog/email/signed-mail.php for more details. If your Microsoft MUA reports problems, please read http://tinyurl.com/broken-mua --GpGaEY17fSl8rd50 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkv8Vm4ACgkQIubykFB6QiOMkQCfelKX9tiP4A4zzuGkBhYFDcTN 3OwAnRpzo0tXgGF9vQwsaqV/RgrFU6zx =aMHv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --GpGaEY17fSl8rd50--
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