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From: Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@usta.de>
To: "J. Lewis Muir" <jlmuir@imca-cat.org>
Cc: tech@mandoc.bsd.lv
Subject: Re: Inconsistent docbook2mdoc experimental status
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2021 17:00:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <X/x2K/wn71Ql61Ue@asta-kit.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210111145155.6t4eilqrxonic4k2@mail.imca-cat.org>

Hi Lewis,

J. Lewis Muir wrote on Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 08:51:55AM -0600:

> Thank you, Developers, for writing mandoc and docbook2mdoc!

You are welcome.  :-)

> Just a quick note that in the "Related information" section at
> 
>   https://mandoc.bsd.lv/
> 
> it says that docbook2mdoc is experimental:
> 
>   docbook2mdoc - an experimental utility to convert documents from the
>   commercial OASIS DocBook format to mdoc(7)
> 
> Yet at
> 
>   https://mandoc.bsd.lv/docbook2mdoc/
> 
> it says docbook2mdoc is not experimental:
> 
>   docbook2mdoc is no longer experimental

Good point, thanks for reporting.

I just deleted the word "experimental" from https://mandoc.bsd.lv/.
I considered adding a less dire warning like "under development"
because people might be disappointed that results will not yet be
ideal for all DocBookk input pages.

Then again, the docbook2mdoc entry on https://mandoc.bsd.lv/
is already the longest, https://mandoc.bsd.lv/docbook2mdoc/
already describes the details of the status, and saying more
on https://mandoc.bsd.lv/ would be likely to ultimately end up
outdated again.  So i decided against any qualification.

Yours,
  Ingo
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      reply	other threads:[~2021-01-11 16:00 UTC|newest]

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2021-01-11 14:51 J. Lewis Muir
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