Hi! ----
[The issue came up on IRC today - again... and I have been asked to forward it to this forum to ask for an official answer and possibly a roadmap which leads to a solution] Why is Solaris still shipping troff manual pages which are build from DocBook manpages instead of shipping the DocBook manual pages itself ? IMO these "intermediate" troff manpage files do not make much sense (except that you don't have to ship the DTDs etc.) except that the current situation blocks other contributors from doing their work (for example we had a talented contributor who was willing to translate the ksh93 manual page to japanese using the japanese DocBook sources for ksh(1) as basis - but the DocBook sources were never released even after the promise in http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/docs-discuss/2006-April/000375.html ... and after waiting more than six month she finally gave up and helped other projects (or short: The problem scared another contributor away... ;-( )). Now... a year later... nothing has changed (and there is still no /usr/man/ja_JP.UTF-8/sman1/ksh.1) ... ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) roland.mainz at nrubsig.org \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 7950090 (;O/ \/ \O;)
