=================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/mandoc/Attic/index.sgml,v retrieving revision 1.6 retrieving revision 1.9 diff -u -p -r1.6 -r1.9 --- mandoc/Attic/index.sgml 2009/02/25 12:32:50 1.6 +++ mandoc/Attic/index.sgml 2009/02/27 10:55:16 1.9 @@ -24,14 +24,19 @@
- mdocml is a suite of tools that compile “mdoc”, the roff macro - package of the BSD manual pages. The mission of mdocml is to deprecate mdocml is a suite of tools compiling “mdoc”, the roff macro + package for BSD manual pages. The mission of mdocml is to deprecate groff, the GNU roff implementation, for - displaying BSD mdoc pages. groff amounts to over 60 000 lines of GPL C++ source, which is a - considerable encumbrance to BSD operating systems. + displaying BSD mdoc pages.
+ Why? groff amounts to roughly 5,2 MB of source code (OpenBSD 4.2), some of which is C++ and all of + which is GPL. It runs slowly, produces uncertain output, and varies in operation from system + to system. mdocml strives to fix this (respectively small, C, ISC-licensed, fast and regular). +
+ +
The core of mdocml is the libmdoc library, a validating scanner-parser producing
intermediate-form output from mdoc input. libmdoc is a simple, fast library operating on memory buffers
of mdoc input. Its intermediate output, an abstract syntax tree, is fully documented in the
+ The most current version is @VERSION@, dated + @VDATE@. +
+- CVS sources are checkedout and snapshotted with big updates. These may be found in the /snapshots/ directory.
@@ -92,7 +102,7 @@@@ -136,7 +146,7 @@