> On Wed, Jul 01, 2020 at 11:28:47PM +0200, Gordon Bergling wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 01, 2020 at 11:58:05AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 1, 2020 at 8:51 AM Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > > > ... > > > > We often have "An ls command appeared in Version 1 AT&T UNIX." Our > > > > source > > > > code and man page is not from that, but that is the history of ls. > > > > > > > > This *could* be amended and *should* be amended to reflect that apropos, > > > > and makewhatis got *updated* by a switch to the mandoc versions, but it > > > > is misleading to say it was intergrated with the switch to mandoc as > > > > that > > > > implies it did not exist before this action. > > > > > > I tend to agree with Rod here. These appeared in X the first time, but > > > noting they were replaced in version X with Y is the best way to address > > > the current provenance of the code... > > > > OK, I see your arguments. How about the following addition for HISTORY > > section, > > > > The apropos utility was integrated into FreeBSD 11.1 as part of the > > switch to mandoc. Before the switch to mandoc apropos was available since > > FreeBSD 1.0. > > It should be the other way around: > > "The apropos utility appeared in FreeBSD 1.0. Since FreeBSD 11.1 > it is based on mandoc implementation."
Thats good, but realize the page already contains history that reads like: HISTORY Part of the functionality of whatis was already provided by the former manwhere utility in 1BSD. The apropos and whatis utilities first ap- peared in 2BSD. They were rewritten from scratch for OpenBSD 5.6. The -M option and the MANPATH variable first appeared in 4.3BSD; -m in 4.3BSD-Reno; -C in 4.4BSD Lite1; and -S and -s in OpenBSD 4.5 for apropos and in OpenBSD 5.6 for whatis. The options -acfhIKklOTWw appeared in OpenBSD 5.7. And further contains: UTHORS Bill Joy wrote manwhere in 1977 and the original BSD apropos and whatis in February 1979. The current version was written by Kristaps Dzonsons <krist...@bsd.lv> and Ingo Schwarze <schwa...@openbsd.org>. So the history is rich and complete, do we really need to say when we incorporated this into FreeBSD from OpenBSD's mandoc in the manual page? > ./danfe -- Rod Grimes rgri...@freebsd.org _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"