Thanks for the info. I don't see the need for ms / nroff going away; I do see it becoming much more of an "optional" addition to the system though -- and ideally I'd like to defer "sustaining" (as if it is sustained) to a source tree that is outside of illumos-gate. It's unclear if there is sufficient merit in moving it to warrant the effort though.
Its a question for later, orthogonal to the integration of mandoc, and the switch to mdoc format for man pages. On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 11:44 AM, Darren Reed <[email protected]> wrote: > On 15/07/2014 8:04 AM, Garrett D'Amore via illumos-discuss wrote: > > ... > >>> f) There are folks actually continuing to sustain and improve this tool > >> chain. Solaris (err AT&T) derived troff and nroff by comparison are > >> practically dead, and almost undebuggable with horrible code written > back > >> when linkers didn't support symbols with more than 6 characters in them. > >> > >> > >> So what happens to our nroff/troff? Do they get torched? > >> > > Good question. I'd torch them if it were up to me. I suppose in theory > > someone might have some content in .ms or something like that (I wrote > > papers in .ms macros when I was in school). My preference would be to > > eject them from the illumos-gate, and let folks get them from another > > repository if they really want them. My gut is that nobody uses these > for > > anything except man pages. > > > > Documents that aresubmitted to the IETF in ASCII text for consideration > as RFC publications are still required to be written in "ms" format. > > Whilst submissions areaccepted in many formats, nroff is still accepted > and used. For many it is the text format of choice in this regard. > > Whether or not this is too peripheral to warrant remaining, I'll leave > to yourself and others to debate. > > For more information see: > > http://www.rfc-editor.org/formatting.html > > Cheers, > Darren > > ------------------------------------------- illumos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175430-2e6923be Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175430&id_secret=21175430-6a77cda4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
