The future of the roff toolchain

[Benjamin Kaduk]

On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 02:57:33PM +0200, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> 
> 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.
> I also want to remove most of roff related tools (the one provided by toolchains
> available in ports) for which we kept a BSD version (not really maintained in
> base):
> namely:
> - checknr
> - vgrind
> - colcrt
> 
> Only keeping:
> - col (useful in other places than roff)
> - soelim (also used for manpages and we have a clean BSD licensed version which
>   is also now parts of mandoc)

That sounds like a good plan to me.  Thank you for putting in all
the time trying out the alternate roff toolchains!

-Ben