On Thu, Jul 02, 2020 at 12:06:13AM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > On Wed, Jul 01, 2020 at 05:01:00PM -0700, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > Thats good, but realize the page already contains history that > > reads like: > > > > HISTORY > > Part of the functionality of whatis was already provided by the former > > manwhere utility in 1BSD. The apropos and whatis utilities first ap- > > peared in 2BSD. They were rewritten from scratch for OpenBSD 5.6. > > > > The -M option and the MANPATH variable first appeared in 4.3BSD; -m in > > 4.3BSD-Reno; -C in 4.4BSD Lite1; and -S and -s in OpenBSD 4.5 for > > apropos > > and in OpenBSD 5.6 for whatis. The options -acfhIKklOTWw appeared in > > OpenBSD 5.7. > > > > And further contains: > > > > AUTHORS > > Bill Joy wrote manwhere in 1977 and the original BSD apropos and whatis > > in February 1979. The current version was written by Kristaps Dzonsons > > <krist...@bsd.lv> and Ingo Schwarze <schwa...@openbsd.org>. > > > > So the history is rich and complete, do we really need to say when we > > incorporated this into FreeBSD from OpenBSD's mandoc in the manual page? > > Ah, in this case, the only thing lacking from the current version is mention > of FreeBSD 11.1. Sorry for not checking with that before writing my reply. > My main point, however, was that reverse chronological order looks strange.
I have created the following differential and integrated the given feedback. https://reviews.freebsd.org/D25566 If necessary I could revert r362809, but somebody should explicit request it. --Gordon _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
