GSoC: BSD text tools

Eitan Adler lists at eitanadler.com
Tue May 25 22:21:42 UTC 2010


On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 7:55 PM, Matthew Jacob <mj at feral.com> wrote:
> On 5/25/2010 9:52 AM, Julian Elischer wrote:
>>
>> On 5/25/10 8:33 AM, Eitan Adler wrote:
>>>>
>>>> No. Do not remove groff or associated tools from /usr/src !
>>>> Roff has been in Unix /usr/src since '77 or earlier.
>>>> A lot of people use tools from that descendancy as production tools.
>>>
>>> So? If it isn't a very commonly used tool and isn't necessary for 99%
>>> of cases I don't seem the harm of removing it from base and making it
>>> a port?
>>
>> BSD has always  been ab;e to produce it's documentation as part of its
>> build
>>
>> Please keep this true.
>
This is what mdocml will be for. I never advocated removing the
utilities required for building documentation from the base - just the
soon to be superfluous groff utility (once the GSOC project is done).

-- 
Eitan Adler


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