Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 20:48:04 +0200 From: Erik Cederstrand <erik@cederstrand.dk> To: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Cc: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dwb : groff replacement proposal Message-ID: <877EF62B-D2BE-422F-8545-DBC63E5AA682@cederstrand.dk> In-Reply-To: <20100630170757.GA52509@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> References: <4C2AB793.4040601@laposte.net> <20100630034622.GA48794@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <4C2B11A9.4020206@laposte.net> <4C2B6922.6090300@elischer.org> <20100630170757.GA52509@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
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Den 30/06/2010 kl. 19.07 skrev Steve Kargl: > > The fact remains that there is no available alternative that > contains the functionality of groff. I still can't read from this discussion if FreeBSD base actually needs all the functionality that groff provides, and if the proposed alternatives are lacking needed functionality which cannot be worked around by simple changes to the distributed man-pages like the ones committed in the last weeks. I may be horribly misinformed, but man-page rendering does seem like a fairly simple task. Erik
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