GNU Troff (groff) [LSARC/2008/425 FastTrack timeout 07/14/2008]

[Alan Coopersmith]

Thanks, I've now re-marked it as closed approved.

	-alan-

Tom Childers wrote:
> Thanks, Alan.  That's good enough for me. I also went through the info
> on the gnu website, and see that there are troff and nroff compatibility
> modes.
> 
> Now that this info is in the mail archive for the case, I'm happy to see
> it approved.
> -tdc
> 
> On Jul 15, 2008, at 10:35 AM, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> 
>> I'll re-open the case for now, but at least part of the answers are
>> clear:
>>
>> 1) We're shipping groff because it works with documents we get from
>> developers
>>   who work on other distros that our nroff/troff don't work with. 
>> (Examples
>>   include CR's 6720105, 6675433, 6510256 and probably a bunch more.)
>>
>> 2) We're shipping groff because it includes long-standing pieces of
>> the *roff
>>   toolchain that are missing from Solaris, such as pic & grap.  (CR
>> 4470869)
>>
>> 3) We're shipping groff because it's a tool that's familiar to Linux &
>> BSD
>>   developers that Solaris doesn't have, and that alone has been
>> declared to
>>   be reason enough.
>>
>> I'll let the project team research the compatibility issue, though I
>> wonder
>> if it's really an issue for this case or the advised future project to
>> replace
>> Solaris *roff with groff.
>>
>>     -Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
>>      Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
>>
>> Tom Childers wrote:
>>> Alan,
>>>
>>> I'm still wondering if the groff tool is backward compatible with any
>>> other *roff tools. I would like a statement, and preferably man page
>>> documentation to that effect. Otherwise, why are we promoting a new
>>> *roff tool?
>>>
>>> Please keep the case open until this issue is resolved. I imagine it's
>>> available from the groff authors.
>>> -tdc
>>>
>>> On Jul 15, 2008, at 9:57 AM, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>>>
>>>> Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>>>>> I am sponsoring this fasttrack for Padraig O'Briain of the Desktop
>>>>> team.
>>>>> The timeout is set for one week from today, Monday July 14, and the
>>>>> case
>>>>> requests a patch release binding as it only introduces new commands.
>>>>
>>>> With no remaining open questions, this case is timed out, and closed
>>>> approved.
>>>>
>>>> The project team is given the informal advice (i.e. I'm not writing an
>>>> opinion
>>>> just to say this) to work with the ON utilities team that owns
>>>> nroff/troff &
>>>> possibly the Indiana team, to evaluate if any of these tools can
>>>> replace the
>>>> old *roff tools in a future project.
>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>>>    -Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
>>>>     Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
>>>>
>>>
> 

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	-Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
	 Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering