From: Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
To: "discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv" <discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv>
Subject: Re: mdoc section ordering
Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 14:50:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BEAA40F.2090209@bsd.lv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100511205920.GC24992@bramka.kerhand.co.uk>
>> Jason, in my opinion, COMPATIBILITY and STANDARDS shouldn't be merged in
>> all cases. Take mdocml's man.7 and mdoc.7, for example: the
>> COMPATIBILITY section is used to enumerate the differences between
>> troffs and mandoc. Since -man, -mdoc, etc. aren't standards, where else
>> would this go?
>>
>
> a separate section sometimes makes sense, yes. but for the general case,
> we found it didn;t warrant the need for an "official" section.
This has been checked in along with some other bits. Thanks!
Note that -man doesn't check against sections, largely because I don't
want to bloat the codebase with validating that obsolete shit.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-12 8:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-11 11:52 Ulrich Spörlein
2010-05-11 13:45 ` Jason McIntyre
2010-05-11 14:57 ` Ulrich Spörlein
2010-05-11 15:43 ` Jason McIntyre
2010-05-11 16:23 ` Ulrich Spörlein
2010-05-11 20:09 ` Kristaps Dzonsons
2010-05-11 20:27 ` Ulrich Spörlein
2010-05-11 20:59 ` Jason McIntyre
2010-05-12 12:50 ` Kristaps Dzonsons [this message]
2010-05-13 22:23 ` Thomas Klausner
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