From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 31 16:23:07 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6943F16A474; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:23:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rermilov@team.vega.ru) Received: from mail.vega.ru (infra.dev.vega.ru [90.156.167.14]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D41213C4A6; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:23:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rermilov@team.vega.ru) Received: from [87.242.97.68] (port=55055 helo=edoofus.dev.vega.ru) by mail.vega.ru with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.68 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1InDZo-000M8t-PD; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 13:25:44 +0000 Received: from edoofus.dev.vega.ru (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by edoofus.dev.vega.ru (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id l9VDP0tv042932; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:25:00 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from rermilov@team.vega.ru) Received: (from ru@localhost) by edoofus.dev.vega.ru (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id l9VDP0bk042929; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:25:00 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from rermilov@team.vega.ru) X-Authentication-Warning: edoofus.dev.vega.ru: ru set sender to rermilov@team.vega.ru using -f Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:25:00 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: Tim Kientzle Message-ID: <20071031132459.GC21541@team.vega.ru> References: <4726A890.5090705@freebsd.org> <20071030131216.GB91078@kobe.laptop> <4727F0AF.4060605@freebsd.org> <20071031103324.GB1795@kobe.laptop> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071031103324.GB1795@kobe.laptop> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Cc: Giorgos Keramidas , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: -mdoc vs. -man X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:23:07 -0000 On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 12:33:24PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2007-10-30 20:04, Tim Kientzle wrote: > >>> I've had some requests from people who want to use the > >>> libarchive and bsdtar manpages on non-BSD systems that don't > >>> support -mdoc. > >>> > >>> Any problems if I reworked these manpages to only require > >>> -man-old for compatibility with these systems? (Other than > >>> the inherent tediousness of such a project, that is.) > >> > >> Yes. At least from me. > > > > All good points. Any leads on software that can convert from > > -mdoc to -man? That would neatly address this issue for me. > > Not really. I haven't really used -man for any substantial > amount of work in years. Maybe Ruslan, who is our groff-guru > knows about something? > I'm not aware of any such tools. But perhaps having formatted versions of manpages (aka catpages) available in the libarchive distribution would be enough. Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer