On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 9:24 PM, Roland Mainz <roland.mainz at nrubsig.org> wrote: > Mike Gerdts wrote: > [CC:'ing Michelle Olson <michelle.olson at sun.com> as co-lead of the > (yet-to-be-announched) manpage-subsystem-rewrite project] >> >> I'm looking for a sponsor for the following:
I'll hold off on a sponsor for this as Roland and I sync up. > Groan... > ... for the log: I am currently _rewriting_ the manpage subsystem from > scratch (the frontend already exists as > http://svn.genunix.org/repos/on/branches/ksh93/gisburn/scripts/shman.ksh > ; I'm now waiting for the "ksh93-integration update1" to land before > doing the remaining work). IMO it may be nice to syncronize the work a > bit... Groan... I just had a putback[1] for new functionality into man that makes MANPATH unnecessary in most conditions. I wish that we would have known about each others efforts or ambitions last December when I did most of the work on this. 1. http://opensolaris.org/os/community/on/flag-days/pages/2008051501/ > Some notes: > - IMO it may be nice to have something like /etc/man/mandirs which keeps > track of directories which contain man directories and a tool ("manadm" > ?) which adds/removes entries to that list and invokes the crawling > process for all subdirs listed there. I was intending for that to be SMF properties, which could just as easily be modified by manadm. In an IPS world that is a subject of active discussion - but could turn into properties on the directories[2]. 2. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/pkg-discuss/2008-May/003503.html Assuming that things move forward with your re-write of all things man, it may make sense to look at the entire collection of bugs against the man subsystem. I know that as I have dabbled in this area I have had several people mention their long-time pet peeves. Mine first one was that I always had to do too much shell magic in .profile to get a working MANPATH. I think you can guess what the second was. I'm moving this thread over to on-discuss to be sure that the right people are in on the discussion. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/
