From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/4025 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Anthony J. Bentley" Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: Re: status of POSIX man pages? Date: Sun, 08 Sep 2013 23:29:10 -0600 Message-ID: <22523.1378704550@cathet.us> References: <20130701174411.GA1631@gauss> <20130726192025.GC30662@newbook> <5229C94C.9020504@barfooze.de> <522D5235.4090403@barfooze.de> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1378704612 1645 80.91.229.3 (9 Sep 2013 05:30:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2013 05:30:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: mtk.manpages@gmail.com, John Spencer , Isaac , Rob Landley , Felix Janda To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-4029-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Mon Sep 09 07:30:13 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org Original-Received: from mother.openwall.net ([195.42.179.200]) by plane.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VIu3B-0005Bp-Eb for gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Sep 2013 07:30:13 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 23891 invoked by uid 550); 9 Sep 2013 05:30:12 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Original-Received: (qmail 23606 invoked from network); 9 Sep 2013 05:29:27 -0000 X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:in-reply-to:references :comments:date:message-id; bh=ROsuQp8bNe60j6s/RavJYYH/BWy1dbpX8hRIT2ubB6k=; b=MoF6c/TnZiy3g7fQINFL993v+b3BcnbYx29zwwWRGkQzKWBMBnyAXDLamMfigKY6a0 UeKZJkIQQWRhFOAaLFNDN/bS1lDv6VP3anSTyaXvm2Yr/HlX81dAIEjOGbNR3DqHG4hE MPMtnYqC8uTbwJaU4a9ckqTIVDf9e/4a2v+wtvKAgYeqpeebwebZnGqDL4aMo1onREge 3evUAlN4Cq88ryNJ4aaAhdS/Pmb29QRg91JhviFWuVyHraV4Qs8rickmx96RJ94+i1bE 73ytFHJe7OhxpwKDLAJGGkOXN4ApZ+3+dESmt7Cwx88D8hcf1mY/dOrwQe8QyzArxgB2 wsFg== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQk4aVKh/VDSk8q6DyOAHngLQ8m0ZwX3KH7rtDbtCRxxU95tDZk9+kxJJRaVjwaOE1+hTRJo X-Received: by 10.67.30.100 with SMTP id kd4mr18380546pad.24.1378704555588; Sun, 08 Sep 2013 22:29:15 -0700 (PDT) In-reply-to: <522D5235.4090403@barfooze.de> Comments: In-reply-to John Spencer message dated "Mon, 09 Sep 2013 06:44:37 +0200." Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:4025 Archived-At: John Spencer writes: > On 09/08/2013 08:05 AM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 2:23 PM, John Spencer wr > ote: > >> On 07/26/2013 09:20 PM, Isaac wrote: > >>> > >>> On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 03:08:52AM +0200, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) > >>> wrote: > >>>> > >>>> As of a few days ago, the necessary permissions are granted. I do not > >>>> yet have the source files (and so am unsure of the source format), but > >>>> I expect that they will become available to us in the next couple of > >>>> weeks. > >>> > >>> > >>> I'm curious what the status of this is. Do you have the sources yet? > >>> > >> > >> i am very interested in a status update as well. > >> getting the posix 2008 manpages into my distro is a todo item since a long > >> time > >> https://github.com/rofl0r/sabotage/issues/34 > > > > A while back we got permission from the IEEE and The Open Group to use > > the POSIX.1-2013 pages (==POSIX.1-2008 + Technical Corrigendum 1, > > published 2013). > > > > However, the source text that has been provided to us needs massaging > > in a number of ways before it can be published as a set of standalone > > pages. Felix Janda kindly offered to take on that task, and has been > > making very good progress. I expect that in a week or two, we'll have > > a set of pages for public review (to see if there are any remaining > > bugs in the "massaging process" that Felix or I did not spot). > > > > that's very good news. > btw, i am currently writing (or improving) a non-bloated man > implementation: https://raw.github.com/rofl0r/hardcore-utils/master/man.c . Along those lines is mandoc, which is not a full troff implementation but does support tbl, man, and mdoc. Used as the default man in several BSDs and Minix. Also supports output to html (actually its original purpose). http://mdocml.bsd.lv/ -- Anthony J. Bentley