From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailout.scc.kit.edu (mailout.scc.kit.edu [129.13.185.202]) by krisdoz.my.domain (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id s2VKvcvT013191 for ; Mon, 31 Mar 2014 16:57:39 -0400 (EDT) Received: from hekate.usta.de (asta-nat.asta.uni-karlsruhe.de [172.22.63.82]) by scc-mailout-02.scc.kit.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72 #1) id 1WUjGy-0002FW-Sb; Mon, 31 Mar 2014 22:57:36 +0200 Received: from donnerwolke.usta.de ([172.24.96.3]) by hekate.usta.de with esmtp (Exim 4.77) (envelope-from ) id 1WUjGy-0001Iw-O4 for discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv; Mon, 31 Mar 2014 22:57:36 +0200 Received: from iris.usta.de ([172.24.96.5] helo=usta.de) by donnerwolke.usta.de with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1WUjGy-0004NG-Oy for discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv; Mon, 31 Mar 2014 22:57:36 +0200 Received: from schwarze by usta.de with local (Exim 4.77) (envelope-from ) id 1WUjGy-00006j-FH for discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv; Mon, 31 Mar 2014 22:57:36 +0200 Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 22:57:36 +0200 From: Ingo Schwarze To: discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv Subject: Re: pod2mdoc, docbook2mdoc Message-ID: <20140331205736.GJ31866@iris.usta.de> References: <53386109.9000504@bsd.lv> <20140331090912.GW26456@danbala.tuwien.ac.at> <533943B9.5080901@bsd.lv> <20140331161315.GC31866@iris.usta.de> <5339C49A.7020502@bsd.lv> X-Mailinglist: mdocml-discuss Reply-To: discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5339C49A.7020502@bsd.lv> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Hi Kristaps, Kristaps Dzonsons wrote on Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 09:40:10PM +0200: > Note for those with commit access that the modules are in > /usr/vhosts/mdocml.bsd.lv/pod2mdoc and so. Err, not quite, there is a "cvs/" missing in the middle. The following works (if you have commit access): export CVSROOT=${LOGIN}@bsd.lv:/usr/vhosts/mdocml.bsd.lv/cvs cvs co pod2mdoc cvs co docbook2mdoc > (The commit hook in CVSROOT should probably be updated to mail > commits on the new modules...) Done. The commitinfo/loginfo syntax requires BREs, so there is no support for '|', so i had to copy the respective lines, but nothing much is wrong with that, i think. > Ingo Schwarze wrote: >> In any case, docbook2mdoc seems much more useful than pod2mdoc, >> at least in a short-term perspective. > My general thought on pod2mdoc was to avoid invoking perl(1) just to > run pod2man(1) in the normal chain of looking at POD documents. I > also thought that, with a few more pod2mdoc smarts, we'll be able to > deeply mine those documents with mandocdb. From what I understand, > they're kinda opaque right now. All true. I didn't mean to call pod2mdoc useless, no doubt it can bring us benefits when it will be polished. What i meant to say is that docbook2mdoc is even better because it might help people convert man(7) manuals to mdoc(7), thus thwarting esr's evil plan to migrate the world to DocBook. :-) Yours, Ingo -- To unsubscribe send an email to discuss+unsubscribe@mdocml.bsd.lv