From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=UNPARSEABLE_RELAY autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 21366 invoked from network); 29 Nov 2020 21:07:46 -0000 Received: from bsd.lv (HELO mandoc.bsd.lv) (66.111.2.12) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 29 Nov 2020 21:07:46 -0000 Received: from fantadrom.bsd.lv (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mandoc.bsd.lv (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id fd4b47c4 for ; Sun, 29 Nov 2020 16:07:40 -0500 (EST) Received: from mx.stare.cz (uvt.stare.cz [185.63.96.79]) by mandoc.bsd.lv (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id 40df0be2 for ; Sun, 29 Nov 2020 16:07:35 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (stare.cz [local]) by stare.cz (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPA id 7172b8ea for ; Sun, 29 Nov 2020 22:07:32 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2020 22:07:32 +0100 From: Jan Stary To: discuss@mandoc.bsd.lv Subject: Re: Possible to add optional bzip2 support? Message-ID: References: <20201129201424.GI58187@athene.usta.de> X-Mailinglist: mandoc-discuss Reply-To: discuss@mandoc.bsd.lv MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20201129201424.GI58187@athene.usta.de> Hi Ingo, On Nov 29 21:14:24, schwarze@usta.de wrote: > It would be easier to convince me to delete *.gz support than to > add *.bz2 support. Either is unrelated to the purpose of mandoc > and linking to zlib is ugly and messy, i'd love to get rid of the > dependency and of the rather ugly and error-prone code needed to > support *.gz files. would you please kindly consider removing the gz support from mandoc? The linking is messy, the code needed to support *.gz files is rather ugly and error-prone, and the (un)compression is unrelated to the purpose of mandoc in the first place. Jan -- To unsubscribe send an email to discuss+unsubscribe@mandoc.bsd.lv