On Mar 30, 2017, at 15:11, Jan Stary wrote: > On Mar 30 21:47:38, [email protected] wrote: >> On 03/30/2017 09:26 PM, Jan Stary wrote: >>> Just forget it. My intentions when proposing the mdoc(7) rewrite >>> were the opposite of having asciidoc and docbook and xml/xsl ... >> >> While the dependencies seem quite heavy, > > (to say the least) > >> languages like man(7)/mdoc(7) just fell out of fashion > > The vast majority of UNIX manpages is written in these languages. > >> and rarely anyone still understands it or is willing to learn it... >> The intention of using AsciiDoc is to make contributions easier, and it has >> proven its fitness for this task in other open source projects such as Git. > > I doubt very much that people cannot read or write mdoc(7). > As for contributions, does that mean people contributed > those asciidoc rewriter to macports?
Clemens contributed most of the asciidoc rewrites of the manpages. > Anyway, the mdoc(7) rewrite is apparently not happening. Right; the asciidoc rewrite of the manpages was just released to the public in MacPorts 2.4 so there's probably no interest in changing it again so soon.
