On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Ulrich Spörlein <uqs_at_freebsd.org> wrote: > On Sun, 2012-10-21 at 10:40:45 +0200, Hans Ottevanger wrote: >> On 10/19/12 16:36, Ulrich Spörlein wrote: >> > Hi all, >> > >> > those roff sources have been very naughty and will be removed from the >> > tree by the end of the year. Most of those papers are severely out of >> > date and provide no more use to the system. They can probably also be >> > found online using a search engine of your choice. >> > >> >> Could you be more specific as to why these sources have been "very naughty"? >> >> > Should people feel strongly about them, we might be able to move them >> > over to the doc repository. >> > >> >> I strongly object this removal. As already pointed out by others, there >> are papers documenting vi/ex and RPC/XDR. These papers are practically >> the only docs available on these subjects, apart from the very terse man >> pages. There are also tutorials on e.g. Yacc and Lex, that probably are >> not that up-to-date but quite short and (at least for now) readily >> available. And there is also the IPC Tutorial. >> >> This may not all be documents that are immediately needed for >> operational purposes, but they do offer much needed background >> information, also of historical character, i.e. how and why things >> became as they are today. > > The handbook provides even more useful documentation and information, > yet we don't have xsltproc in the base system, force everyone to compile > it twice and then typeset all the documentation over and over again. > > They will therefore be moved to the doc repository were they probably > should have been all along. How about converting them to SGML and integrating them into the Handbook (with the caveat that they are outdated, but retained for archival purposes)? > Cheers, > Uli -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/Received on Mon Oct 22 2012 - 10:53:12 UTC
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