From: lm@mcvoy.com (Larry McVoy)
Subject: [TUHS] Another "craft" discussion topic - mindless tool proliferation
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2017 17:50:53 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170922005053.GN25650@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1827FFAA-EB54-44E9-84BF-D5EEF0CCB9FF@orthanc.ca>
On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 05:39:25PM -0700, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
>
> > On Sep 21, 2017, at 5:38 PM, Larry McVoy <lm at mcvoy.com> wrote:
> >
> > And removing roff from BSD is gonna make me mad. I'm about to start
> > doing some work on BSD so maybe I'll make some noise. Or did the *roff
> > tools stick around?
>
> Apparently they are all rewriting nroff into something called mandoc.
Oh, brother. Like the BSD Makefile crap. "Better" but nobody else uses it.
Somebody needs a clue stick. Might be them, might be me, but it's needed.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-22 0:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-19 17:01 Jon Steinhart
2017-09-19 17:05 ` Steve Nickolas
2017-09-19 20:31 ` Pete Turnbull
2017-09-19 20:37 ` Warner Losh
2017-09-19 23:35 ` Theodore Ts'o
2017-09-20 0:47 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2017-09-20 1:02 ` Larry McVoy
2017-09-20 1:09 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2017-09-20 1:13 ` Larry McVoy
2017-09-20 1:22 ` Larry McVoy
2017-09-20 2:01 ` Larry McVoy
2017-09-20 2:34 ` Bakul Shah
2017-09-20 2:47 ` Larry McVoy
2017-09-20 6:18 ` Bakul Shah
2017-09-20 4:35 ` Grant Taylor
2017-09-20 5:54 ` Ian Zimmerman
2017-09-24 23:03 ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-09-24 23:35 ` Bakul Shah
2017-09-20 16:49 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-09-20 4:29 ` Grant Taylor
2017-09-20 6:43 ` Peter Jeremy
2017-09-20 8:25 ` Bakul Shah
2017-09-20 9:12 ` Steve Nickolas
2017-09-20 9:34 ` Bakul Shah
2017-09-20 16:48 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-09-20 2:07 ` Theodore Ts'o
2017-09-24 22:58 ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-09-20 4:26 ` Grant Taylor
2017-09-20 16:45 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-09-21 17:33 ` Tony Finch
2017-09-21 18:39 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-09-22 0:02 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2017-09-22 0:30 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2017-09-22 0:38 ` Larry McVoy
2017-09-22 0:39 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2017-09-22 0:50 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2017-09-22 1:01 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2017-09-22 1:08 ` Larry McVoy
2017-09-22 20:09 ` [TUHS] remaking make (Re: " Bakul Shah
2017-09-22 2:25 ` [TUHS] " Warner Losh
2017-09-22 3:26 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2017-09-22 4:09 ` ron minnich
2017-09-22 2:20 ` Warner Losh
2017-09-22 0:36 ` Larry McVoy
2017-09-22 0:40 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2017-09-22 1:53 ` Michael Parson
2017-09-22 3:25 ` Grant Taylor
2017-09-20 6:20 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-09-20 16:39 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-09-24 22:54 ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-09-25 0:16 ` Steve Johnson
2017-09-25 11:30 ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-09-20 18:15 ` Clem Cole
2017-09-20 18:35 ` Jon Steinhart
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