* mdocml: Mention that mandoc is also an OpenBSD project, agreed by
@ 2013-11-07 21:57 schwarze
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From: schwarze @ 2013-11-07 21:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Log Message:
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Mention that mandoc is also an OpenBSD project, agreed by Kristaps.
Remove text about groff as suggested by Kristaps;
explaining that topic properly would get too long.
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VERSION_1_12
Modified Files:
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mdocml:
index.sgml
Revision Data
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Index: index.sgml
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/vhosts/mdocml.bsd.lv/cvs/mdocml/index.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.154.2.11
retrieving revision 1.154.2.12
diff -Lindex.sgml -Lindex.sgml -u -p -r1.154.2.11 -r1.154.2.12
--- index.sgml
+++ index.sgml
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<P CLASS="head">
+ <A HREF="http://www.openbsd.org/"><IMG SRC="puffy.gif" ALT="Puffy" WIDTH="100" HEIGHT="91" STYLE="float: right"></A>
<B>mdocml</B> – UNIX manpage compiler, current version @VERSION@ (@VDATE@)
</P>
<P CLASS="subhead">
@@ -20,14 +21,8 @@
<P>
<SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> is a suite of tools compiling <I><A HREF="mdoc.7.html">mdoc</A></I>, the roff macro
package of choice for BSD manual pages, and <I><A HREF="man.7.html">man</A></I>, the predominant historical package for
- UNIX manuals. The mission of <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> is to deprecate <A
- HREF="http://www.gnu.org/software/groff/" CLASS="external">groff</A>, the GNU troff implementation, for displaying <I>mdoc</I>
- pages whilst providing token support for <I>man</I>.
- </P>
- <P>
- Why? groff amounts to over 5 MB of source code, most of which is C++ and GPL version 3. It runs slowly, produces
- uncertain output, and varies in operation from system to system. mdocml strives to fix this (respectively small, C, <A
- CLASS="external" HREF="http://www.isc.org/software/license">ISC</A>-licensed, fast and regular).
+ UNIX manuals.
+ It is small, ISO C, <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://www.isc.org/software/license">ISC</A>-licensed, and quite fast.
</P>
<P>
<SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> consists of the <A HREF="mandoc.3.html">libmandoc</A> validating compiler and <A
@@ -38,7 +33,20 @@
<A HREF="mandocdb.8.html">mandocdb</A>, for indexing manuals; and
<A HREF="apropos.1.html">apropos</A>, <A HREF="whatis.1.html">whatis</A>, and
<A HREF="man.cgi.7.html">man.cgi</A> (via <A HREF="catman.8.html">catman</A>) for semantic search of manual content.
- It is a <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://bsd.lv/">BSD.lv</A> project.
+ </P>
+ <P>
+ <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> has predominantly been developed on OpenBSD
+ and is both an <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</A>
+ and a <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://bsd.lv/">BSD.lv</A> project.
+ We strive to support all interested free operating systems, in particular
+ <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://www.netbsd.org/">NetBSD</A>,
+ <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://www.dragonflybsd.org/">DragonFly</A>,
+ <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://www.freebsd.org/">FreeBSD</A>,
+ <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://www.minix3.org/">Minix 3</A>,
+ and <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://www.gnu.org/">GNU</A>/Linux,
+ as well as all systems running the <A CLASS="external" HREF="http://www.pkgsrc.org/">pkgsrc</A> portable package build system.
+ All of these projects have helped to make <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> better, by providing feedback and advice,
+ bug reports, and patches.
</P>
<P>
<I>Disambiguation</I>: <SPAN CLASS="nm">mdocml</SPAN> is often referred to by its installed binary, <Q>mandoc</Q>.
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