On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 09:06:07AM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 12:47:28AM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > > Another way to solve this is a rewrite of pod2man .. which will then > > > generate mandoc instead. > > > > > > That also benefits the other manual page project. > > > > hum... so let's trade 10 lines of makewhatis to a complete new back-end > > to pod2man ? > > > > I'm not saying this would not be a good idea, but: > > - we will always need to parse some nroff stuff. Converting all manpages in > > all 3rd party ports is not realistic. > > Huh? > > Converting all pods to mandoc, and getting the prettiness for fre, isn't > worth it?
"For free" ? pod2man is 1700 lines. Figuring out what to rewrite to get mandoc instead of old nroff isn't exactly "for free"... Yes, it's worthwhile. No I currently don't have the time to do it. Small incremental changes to makewhatis that take 1 or 2 hours, on the other hand, are doable...
