The futur of the roff toolchain

Julian Elischer julian at freebsd.org
Mon May 22 14:17:16 UTC 2017


On 21/5/17 8:57 pm, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> Hi all,

[...]

> No the problem left is documentations available in share/doc.
>
> I would like to push them elsewhere. Those documents are mostly useful for
> historical reason (hence we want to keep them) but not really for daily use of
> modern FreeBSD.
> Another issue with those documentation, they are installed as text/ascii version
> in base, which makes most of them not really readable (as the documents has not
> be written for a ascii/text target but more for a PDF/html view - using pic(1)
> for example)

I was surprised that they stayed in src when we split it up.
And really they should be supplemented by every FreeBSD based paper 
presented at a conference :-)





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