From owner-freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Sun May 21 22:34:55 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE05BD770D5 for ; Sun, 21 May 2017 22:34:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mike@karels.net) Received: from mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (mailman.ysv.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::50:5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DB7E1D2D for ; Sun, 21 May 2017 22:34:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mike@karels.net) Received: by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) id 9D0CDD770D2; Sun, 21 May 2017 22:34:55 +0000 (UTC) Delivered-To: arch@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C780D770CF; Sun, 21 May 2017 22:34:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mike@karels.net) Received: from mail.karels.net (mail.karels.net [63.231.190.5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3C691D2C; Sun, 21 May 2017 22:34:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mike@karels.net) Received: from [10.0.2.11] (mjk-mac2.karels.net [10.0.2.11]) by mail.karels.net (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id v4LMKPR8051444; Sun, 21 May 2017 17:20:25 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from mike@karels.net) From: "Mike Karels" To: "Benjamin Kaduk" Cc: "Baptiste Daroussin" , arch@FreeBSD.org, doc@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org, doceng@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: The future of the roff toolchain Date: Sun, 21 May 2017 17:20:10 -0500 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20170521203640.GR39245@kduck.kaduk.org> References: <20170521125733.bmd4tmq6iqpsbvgl@ivaldir.net> <20170521203640.GR39245@kduck.kaduk.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed X-Mailer: MailMate (1.9.6r5347) X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 21 May 2017 22:34:55 -0000 On 21 May 2017, at 15:36, Benjamin Kaduk wrote: > On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 02:57:33PM +0200, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: >> >> What I want to propose now, it to render them as PDF (html?) once and >> push them >> somewhere (to be defined) as static document on our documentation >> website. >> Please doceng@ provide me a location where to push them. >> >> And then remove bsd.doc.mk from FreeBSD 12.0 along with the removal >> of groff. >> I also want to remove most of roff related tools (the one provided by >> toolchains >> available in ports) for which we kept a BSD version (not really >> maintained in >> base): >> namely: >> - checknr >> - vgrind >> - colcrt >> >> Only keeping: >> - col (useful in other places than roff) >> - soelim (also used for manpages and we have a clean BSD licensed >> version which >> is also now parts of mandoc) > > That sounds like a good plan to me. Thank you for putting in all > the time trying out the alternate roff toolchains! +1. I agree that /usr/share/doc is strictly legacy; only the man pages matter for base. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-arch@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arch > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-arch-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"