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Date:      Sun, 21 May 2017 15:36:40 -0500
From:      Benjamin Kaduk <bjk@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        arch@FreeBSD.org, doceng@FreeBSD.org, doc@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: The future of the roff toolchain
Message-ID:  <20170521203640.GR39245@kduck.kaduk.org>
In-Reply-To: <20170521125733.bmd4tmq6iqpsbvgl@ivaldir.net>
References:  <20170521125733.bmd4tmq6iqpsbvgl@ivaldir.net>

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On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 02:57:33PM +0200, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
>=20
> What I want to propose now, it to render them as PDF (html?) once and pus=
h them
> somewhere (to be defined) as static document on our documentation website.
> Please doceng@ provide me a location where to push them.
>=20
> And then remove bsd.doc.mk from FreeBSD 12.0 along with the removal of gr=
off.
> I also want to remove most of roff related tools (the one provided by too=
lchains
> available in ports) for which we kept a BSD version (not really maintaine=
d in
> base):
> namely:
> - checknr
> - vgrind
> - colcrt
>=20
> 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!

-Ben



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