The futur of the roff toolchain

Joel Dahl joel at vnode.se
Sun May 21 19:22:26 UTC 2017


On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 02:57:33PM +0200, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> 
> I would like to change this approach and get back to the initial approach taken
> by others before I jumped in and I would like just entirely remove the roff
> toolchain from base and let people rely on GNU roff from ports.
> 
> What I want to propose now, it to render them as PDF (html?) once and push them
> somewhere (to be defined) as static document on our documentation website.
> Please doceng@ provide me a location where to push them.
> 
> And then remove bsd.doc.mk from FreeBSD 12.0 along with the removal of groff.

Yes. I definitely support these ideas. :-)

-- 
Joel


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