From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp-4.sys.kth.se (smtp-4.sys.kth.se [130.237.48.193]) by krisdoz.my.domain (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id s2VLsmEo023381 for ; Mon, 31 Mar 2014 17:54:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mailscan-2.sys.kth.se (mailscan-2.sys.kth.se [130.237.48.169]) by smtp-4.sys.kth.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1338C9D for ; Mon, 31 Mar 2014 23:54:47 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at kth.se Received: from smtp-4.sys.kth.se ([130.237.48.193]) by mailscan-2.sys.kth.se (mailscan-2.sys.kth.se [130.237.48.169]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 8pp6u8aLImMF for ; Mon, 31 Mar 2014 23:54:47 +0200 (CEST) X-KTH-Auth: kristaps [85.3.59.60] X-KTH-mail-from: kristaps@bsd.lv X-KTH-rcpt-to: discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv Received: from [192.168.1.105] (60-59.3-85.cust.bluewin.ch [85.3.59.60]) by smtp-4.sys.kth.se (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C6F70440 for ; Mon, 31 Mar 2014 23:54:44 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <5339E423.9010007@bsd.lv> Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 23:54:43 +0200 From: Kristaps Dzonsons User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.4.0 X-Mailinglist: mdocml-discuss Reply-To: discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv MIME-Version: 1.0 To: discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv Subject: Re: pod2mdoc, docbook2mdoc References: <53386109.9000504@bsd.lv> <20140331090912.GW26456@danbala.tuwien.ac.at> <533943B9.5080901@bsd.lv> <20140331161315.GC31866@iris.usta.de> <5339C49A.7020502@bsd.lv> <20140331205736.GJ31866@iris.usta.de> <20140331213020.GD29643@danbala.tuwien.ac.at> In-Reply-To: <20140331213020.GD29643@danbala.tuwien.ac.at> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >>> 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. > > Actually, I think it can be very useful. NetBSD regularly imports > openssl, and the documentation for that is written in .pod files. > So for me the most interesting input files are these :) *hinthint* > Just in case you don't have enough test cases yet :) Thomas, Can you send a quick tarball of these interesting files? Best, Kristaps -- To unsubscribe send an email to discuss+unsubscribe@mdocml.bsd.lv