svn commit: r282318 - in head: . gnu/usr.bin/groff/src/preproc tools/build/mk usr.bin usr.bin/soelim usr.bin/soeliminate
Baptiste Daroussin
bapt at FreeBSD.org
Fri May 1 21:00:55 UTC 2015
On Fri, May 01, 2015 at 01:58:15PM -0700, Steve Kargl wrote:
> On Fri, May 01, 2015 at 10:42:11PM +0200, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> > On Fri, May 01, 2015 at 01:30:27PM -0700, Steve Kargl wrote:
> > > On Fri, May 01, 2015 at 08:08:26PM +0000, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> > > > Author: bapt
> > > > Date: Fri May 1 20:08:25 2015
> > > > New Revision: 282318
> > > > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/282318
> > > >
> > > > Log:
> > > > Replace groff's soelim by soeliminate(1) renamed soelim(1)
> > > >
> > >
> > > Given that soeliminate(1) does not implement 4 of the 5
> > > options available to soelim, how are these utilities at
> > > all compatiablity?
> > >
> > > src/UPDATING?
> >
> > I have not been able to find a single usage of soelim(1) that uses any of the
> > other options than the one I did implement in soeliminate otherwise I would have
> > implemented them.
>
> Your presuming that no user uses one or more of these options
> in their own projects.
>
> > UPDATING is not for when a user operation is needed while updating? here it
> > should be transparent and I will implement all the missing bits if
> > incompatibilities are really found.
>
> UPDATING is for warning users that a gratuitious incompatible
> change has been introduced into the functionality once offered
> by the base system.
>
> 20150501:
> soelim(1) from gnu/usr.bin/groff has been replaced by
> usr.bin/soeliminate, which has reduced functionality. If you
> need a functional soelim(1), then install textproc/groff.
soelim(1) has multiple implementations, the version from groff is just "special"
by adding plenty of options, all other implementation out there have 0 options
incluing the original soelim(1)
Best regards,
Bapt
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