On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 07:24:31PM +0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > Hi Jason, > > Jason McIntyre wrote on Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 07:31:49AM +0100: > > On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 01:18:05AM +0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > >> Jason McIntyre wrote on Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 11:10:55PM +0100: > > >>> i'm not entirely convinced... are there likely to be other style > >>> warnings that apply to our base manuals but not "portable"? > >>> if there's a list of things then maybe it makes sense. > > >> Quite likely in the future: > >> [ ... 4 examples deleted ... ] > > > fair enough then, if you think it's worth doing. > > but aren't you worried that you're gonna end up with all > > operating systems/interested parties wanting their own flags? > > Not worried, no. I'm not expecting that many, a handful at most, > and even a dozen would be less of a maintenance burden than many > of the switch/case features contained in the mdoc(7) language itself. > > - illumos, definitely. > - FreeBSD, maybe. I have no indication yet that they may want > to use the feature, but it would fit their culture. > - Debian, possibly. If there is something that they can tweak, > they usually tweak it. If there is not, they tweak it anyway. > But i guess it will take several years before they find out. > They don't move all that fast, you know. > > - Alpine, Void, Arch, Slackware, Crux Linux: > Very unlikely. They tend to refrain from customization, and > from creatung unnecessary maintenance workload for themselves, > whenever they can. > > - DragonFly, Minix, MacOS X: > Very unlikely. These projects look like abandonware to me. > > No other project is actively using mandoc at this point. > It also runs on IBM AIX and Oracle Solaris, and there are many > unofficial, outdated ports for major Linux distros, but none of > these will request their own -Tlint customizations. > > Yours, > Ingo >
evening. thanks for answering my questions. so i have no objections. jmc
