Re: Opinions on .Dd?

[Sascha Wildner <saw@online.de>]

On 7/25/2010 8:25, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> Maybe porting Mdocdate to DragonFly cvs might help you:  I think
> is solves exactly the problem you describe.  I just checked on
> Linux, non-OpenBSD groff auto-detects pages containing Mdocdate
> as mdoc(7) and formats them nicely.  I'm sorry i don't have a
> Solaris box and can't check there...

Well, DragonFly uses git and afaik OpenBSD's way is implemented in rcs.

Yeah supports as in "just takes today's date if the string makes no 
sense to it". You can write .Dd foo or .Dd $Mdocdate$, doesn't matter. 
mdocml seems to follow this convention.

I guess the proper way of "nuking .Dd" would probably be to leave it in 
but just "officially" don't care about it any longer, as in, don't 
bother people any longer to update it and tell them "update it if you 
like, but we don't require you to". And explicitly putting something 
else there instead of a date (so the "today's date" default kicks in) 
just to make that point seems silly too.

Aside from the portability problems, deciding to remove it entirely also 
would just shift the "I have to bother everyone to update it" problem to 
"I have to bother everyone to remove it from imported manual pages", so 
there is no big gain, even if removing it was portable.

Believe it or not, it's already a comforting thought that others 
sympathize. :)

Sascha
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