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Date:      Sun, 21 May 2017 17:20:10 -0500
From:      "Mike Karels" <mike@karels.net>
To:        "Benjamin Kaduk" <bjk@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        "Baptiste Daroussin" <bapt@FreeBSD.org>, arch@FreeBSD.org, doc@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org, doceng@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: The future of the roff toolchain
Message-ID:  <C47D62E3-6E5E-48FF-9726-4745E7149A23@karels.net>
In-Reply-To: <20170521203640.GR39245@kduck.kaduk.org>
References:  <20170521125733.bmd4tmq6iqpsbvgl@ivaldir.net> <20170521203640.GR39245@kduck.kaduk.org>

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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.

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