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From: Thomas Klausner <wiz@NetBSD.org>
To: discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv
Subject: Re: pod2mdoc, docbook2mdoc
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2014 00:06:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140403220632.GC20391@danbala.tuwien.ac.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140403135302.GA22574@iris.usta.de>

On Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 03:53:02PM +0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> Thomas, you are already aiming high.

Yes!

> All your suggestions definitely make sense, but
> they are beyond what the current state-of-the-art tools can do.
...
>    Eric S. Raymond basically says that it took
>    him a decade to get there, and he calls it very difficult.

A few years ago when I last tried doclifter I wasn't very impressed,
and your comparison today doesn't impress me much either...
Thanks for that comparison, btw!

>    Which doesn't mean that Kristaps can't do better in a few days,
>    but...  well...  ESR isn't exactly known for stupidity in the
>    free software world, either, so bear with Kristaps.  :)

I hope I wasn't misunderstood:
Kristaps, you're doing great!
I didn't mean to put you down in any way.

> No, it should not.  The *.pod suffix just means "plain old documentation",
> that can be any section, even 3p - though 1, 3, 5, 7, 8 are maybe more
> likely than 3p because most Perlmodule docs are embedded in the *.pm.
> Anyway, you shouldn't conclude anything from a *.pod filename.

So worst-case we could tell pod2man with a flag which section the man
page belongs to.
 Thomas
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-04-03 22:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <sfid-H20140330-202333-+022.64-1@spamfilter.osbf.lua>
2014-03-30 18:23 ` Kristaps Dzonsons
2014-03-31  9:09   ` Thomas Klausner
2014-03-31 10:30     ` Kristaps Dzonsons
2014-03-31 16:13       ` Ingo Schwarze
2014-03-31 19:40         ` Kristaps Dzonsons
2014-03-31 20:57           ` Ingo Schwarze
2014-03-31 21:30             ` Thomas Klausner
2014-03-31 21:54               ` Kristaps Dzonsons
2014-03-31 22:21                 ` Ingo Schwarze
2014-03-31 22:31                   ` Thomas Klausner
2014-04-03 12:02                     ` Kristaps Dzonsons
2014-04-03 12:17                       ` Thomas Klausner
2014-04-03 12:33                         ` Kristaps Dzonsons
2014-04-03 13:53                           ` Ingo Schwarze
2014-04-03 16:51                             ` Kristaps Dzonsons
2014-04-03 22:06                             ` Thomas Klausner [this message]
2014-04-04 13:43                               ` Kristaps Dzonsons

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