Re: call for testing: mandoc-1.13.4 release candidate

[Baptiste Daroussin FreeBSD <bapt@FreeBSD.org>]

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On Sat, Jul 09, 2016 at 03:11:59PM +0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> i'm planning to release mandoc-1.13.4 during the next week.
> 
> Since you are listed as downstream port/package maintainers
> and/or have sent in major contributions or many and/or important
> bug reports lately, i'm giving you the chance of testing
> the non-public release candidate on your favourite platform(s)
> in advance if you want to.  Please do not publicly update your
> ports/packages just yet.
> 
> To avoid flooding people's mailboxes, please don't reply to the
> full To: list, but rather publicly to <tech@mdocml.bsd.lv>
> (requires subscription) or privately to <devel@mdocml.bsd.lv>.
> 
> Both reports of successes and failures are welcome!

No issues at all on FreeBSD
> 
> I already did some testing myself on OpenBSD-6.0-current,
> OpenBSD-5.9-stable, OpenBSD-5.8-stable, Debian GNU/Linux, and Solaris
> 9, 10, and 11, but tests on all other supported platforms are still
> missing, and of course nothing is wrong with giving OpenBSD and
> Solaris another try if you want to.  I'll do the public release as
> soon as i have test reports from a sufficiently diverse set of
> systems.
> 
> Mandoc 1.13.4 is a regular maintenance release and also introduces
> a small number of new features; here is an extract from the NEWS
> file in the release candidate tarball:
> 
>  * man.conf(5): Design and implement a simpler configuration file format.
>  * man(1): Leverage less(1) -T and :t in a way resembling ctags(1)
>    to jump to the definitions of various terms inside manual pages.
>  * soelim(1): New implementation by Baptiste Daroussin.
>  * pledge(2): Use the OpenBSD privilege limitation syscall when available.
>  * man.cgi(8): Support short URIs like http://man.openbsd.org/mdoc .
>  * mandoc.css: Use one unified stylesheet rather than three different ones.
> 
> For a detailed list of changes, see the NEWS file
> inside the release candidate tarball:
> 
>   http://mdocml.bsd.lv/snapshots/mdocml-1.13.4rc1.tar.gz
> 
> Thank you for your support!
>   Ingo
> 
> 
> P.S.
> It seems likely that this will be the last release needing SQLite
> for database support.  I have started work on removing the dependency
> on SQLite without loss of functionality and without needing any
> replacement, relying on POSIX interfaces only.  So it is likely
> that we will have a 1.14.1 release this autumn that no longer needs
> SQLite.

Tell me more, I'm really interestedin that, is there a place were we can look at
this work in progress code?

Best regards,
Bapt

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