On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 01:26:23AM +0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > Hi, > > i never looked at xman(1) nor did i ever use it. > > But oh gawd... > > That whole thing is totally broken. > Nothing about it works at all. > > For example, try to view the strlcat(3) manual page: > start xman(1), hit Ctrl-S, type "strlcat", click "Manual Page". > The response is "No manual entry for strlcat". > > It attempts to reimplement man(1) in a very poor way. > It uses the old man.conf(5) format that we stopped supporting > years ago. I'm sure that list of issues is far from complete. > > Fixing it seems like a major undertaking - and a complete waste of time. > I'm mean, what's the point? Just run man(1) in an xterm(1). That > actually works and has so much more useful features. > > Consequently, i strongly suggest that we simply delete the whole > program from OpenBSD without any replacement. That is what we usually > do with software that is broken, obviously unmaintained, and useless. > > Any objections? >
None from me. Not worth the effort to add mandoc.db support. Nowadays we can build an electron app around man.openbsd.org if we need a replacement :) -- Matthieu Herrb
