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Message-ID: <22523.1378704550@cathet.us>
Date: Sun, 08 Sep 2013 23:29:10 -0600
From: "Anthony J. Bentley" <anthony@...het.us>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
cc: mtk.manpages@...il.com, John Spencer <maillist-musl@...fooze.de>,
Isaac <idunham@...abit.com>, Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>,
Felix Janda <felix.janda@...teo.de>
Subject: Re: Re: status of POSIX man pages?
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<maillist-musl@...fooze.de> 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
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