=================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/mandoc/Attic/index.sgml,v retrieving revision 1.154.2.7 retrieving revision 1.161 diff -u -p -r1.154.2.7 -r1.161 --- mandoc/Attic/index.sgml 2013/10/05 14:05:09 1.154.2.7 +++ mandoc/Attic/index.sgml 2013/10/06 17:34:30 1.161 @@ -33,11 +33,11 @@ mdocml consists of the libmandoc validating compiler and mandoc, which interfaces with the compiler library to format output for UNIX terminals (with support for wide-character locales), XHTML, HTML, PostScript, and PDF. - It also includes preconv, for recoding multibyte manuals; - demandoc, for emitting only text parts of manuals; - mandocdb, for indexing manuals; and - apropos, whatis, and - man.cgi (via catman) for semantic search of manual content. + It also includes preconv for recoding multibyte manuals, + demandoc for emitting only text parts of manuals, + mandocdb for indexing manuals, + apropos (includes whatis mode) for indexed manual search, and + man.cgi for indexed manual search online. It is a BSD.lv project.

@@ -47,13 +47,11 @@ Sources

- mdocml is in plain-old ANSI C and should build and run on any modern system; however, you'll - need libdb to build apropos, whatis, man.cgi, catman, and mandocdb (this is installed by default on BSD UNIX - systems — see the Makefile if you're running Linux). To build and install into /usr/local/, just - run make install. Be careful: the preconv, apropos, and whatis binary names are - usually taken by existing utilities. + mdocml is in ISO C99 and should build and run on any modern system; however, you'll need sqlite3 to build apropos (links to whatis), + man.cgi, and mandocdb. + To build and install into /usr/local/, just run make install. + Be careful: the preconv, apropos, and whatis binary names are usually taken by existing utilities.

Downstream @@ -71,7 +69,7 @@ DragonFly BSD - contrib/mdocml (1.12.1 sources) + contrib/mdocml (1.12.2 sources) lib/libmandoc usr.bin/mandoc (build system) @@ -86,7 +84,7 @@ FreeBSD 9.x, 8.x - ports/textproc/mdocml (1.12.1 port) + ports/textproc/mdocml (1.12.1 port) @@ -104,7 +102,7 @@ pkgsrc - textproc/mdocml (1.12.0 port) + textproc/mdocml (1.12.2 port) @@ -158,12 +156,6 @@ - whatis(1) - - search the manual page database - - - mandoc(3) mandoc macro compiler library @@ -218,12 +210,6 @@ - catman(8) - - update a man.cgi manpage cache - - - mandocdb(8) index UNIX manuals @@ -278,9 +264,17 @@ News

- 02-10-2013: version 1.12.2 + xx-xx-2013: version 1.13.0

+ The mandocdb tools (mandocdb, apropos (absorbing whatis), and man.cgi) have been re-written to + use sqlite3 as a database. +

+

+ 05-10-2013: version 1.12.2 +

+

The mdoc(7) to man(7) converter, to be called as mandoc -Tman, is now fully functional.

@@ -324,7 +318,7 @@ See NEWS for historical notes.

- 23-03-2011: version 1.12.1 + 23-03-2012: version 1.12.1

Significant work on apropos and mandocdb. These tools are @@ -356,7 +350,7 @@ Copyright © 2008–2011 Kristaps Dzonsons, © 2013 Ingo Schwarze, - $Date: 2013/10/05 14:05:09 $ + $Date: 2013/10/06 17:34:30 $