From owner-freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Sun May 21 19:22:26 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 279A1D7799D for ; Sun, 21 May 2017 19:22:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from joel@vnode.se) 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 09612A18 for ; Sun, 21 May 2017 19:22:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from joel@vnode.se) Received: by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) id 08AB6D77996; Sun, 21 May 2017 19:22:26 +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 08180D77995; Sun, 21 May 2017 19:22:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from joel@vnode.se) Received: from smtp.opsify.se (smtp.opsify.se [IPv6:2a07:6c5::4]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.opsify.se", Issuer "Let's Encrypt Authority X3" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AA5F0A13; Sun, 21 May 2017 19:22:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from joel@vnode.se) Received: from ymer.vnode.se (62-20-154-136-no280.tbcn.telia.com [62.20.154.136]) by smtp.opsify.se (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id BE4AF3879C2; Sun, 21 May 2017 21:22:22 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 21 May 2017 21:22:21 +0200 From: Joel Dahl To: Baptiste Daroussin Cc: arch@freebsd.org, doceng@freebsd.org, doc@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: The futur of the roff toolchain Message-ID: <20170521192221.GA74941@ymer.vnode.se> Mail-Followup-To: Baptiste Daroussin , arch@freebsd.org, doceng@freebsd.org, doc@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org References: <20170521125733.bmd4tmq6iqpsbvgl@ivaldir.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20170521125733.bmd4tmq6iqpsbvgl@ivaldir.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.8.0 (2017-02-23) 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 19:22:26 -0000 On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 02:57:33PM +0200, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > > I would like to change this approach and get back to the initial approach taken > by others before I jumped in and I would like just entirely remove the roff > toolchain from base and let people rely on GNU roff from ports. > > 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. Yes. I definitely support these ideas. :-) -- Joel