Removed "regression" for OpenBSD (broken).

[mandoc.git] / index.sgml

diff --git a/index.sgml b/index.sgml
index 544283f2ca0990e91dc84faceec47ea2a1904943..76bc7a3cab96636bb8181189dd09d714ac9d1344 100644 (file)
--- a/index.sgml
+++ b/index.sgml
@@ -24,11 +24,16 @@
                                        </h1>
 
                                        <p>
                                        </h1>
 
                                        <p>

-                                       <span class="nm">mdocml</span> is a suite of tools that compile &#8220;mdoc&#8221;, the roff macro
-                                       package of the BSD manual pages.  The mission of <span class="nm">mdocml</span> is to deprecate <a
+                                       <span class="nm">mdocml</span> is a suite of tools compiling &#8220;mdoc&#8221;, the roff macro
+                                       package for BSD manual pages.  The mission of <span class="nm">mdocml</span> is to deprecate <a

                                        href="http://www.gnu.org/software/groff/" class="external">groff</a>, the GNU roff implementation, for
                                        href="http://www.gnu.org/software/groff/" class="external">groff</a>, 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.
+                                       </p>
+
+                                       <p>
+                                       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).

                                        </p>
 
                                        <p>
                                        </p>
 
                                        <p>


@@ -44,7 +49,7 @@
 
                                        <ul>
                                        <li><span class="man">mdocterm(1)</span> &#8211; formats mdoc input for display on the terminal
 
                                        <ul>
                                        <li><span class="man">mdocterm(1)</span> &#8211; formats mdoc input for display on the terminal

-                                       <li><span class="man">mdochtml(1)</span> &#8211; formats mdoc input as strict HTML (nascent)
+                                       <li><span class="man">mdochtml(1)</span> &#8211; formats mdoc input as HTML/CSS (nascent)

                                        <li><span class="man">mdoclint(1)</span> &#8211; validates mdoc input
                                        <li><span class="man">mdoctree(1)</span> &#8211; prints input abstract syntax tree
                                        </ul>
                                        <li><span class="man">mdoclint(1)</span> &#8211; validates mdoc input
                                        <li><span class="man">mdoctree(1)</span> &#8211; prints input abstract syntax tree
                                        </ul>


@@ -74,15 +79,16 @@
                                        </p>
 
                                        <p>
                                        </p>
 
                                        <p>

-                                       The most current version is <b>@VERSION@</b>, dated <b>@VDATE@</b>.
+                                       The most current version is <span class="attn">@VERSION@</span>, dated 
+                                       <span class="attn">@VDATE@</span>.

                                        </p>
 
                                        <h2>
                                        </p>
 
                                        <h2>

-                                       snapshotted source
+                                       Snapshot source

                                        </h2>
 
                                        <p>
                                        </h2>
 
                                        <p>

-                                       CVS sources are checkedout and snapshotted with big updates.  These may be found in the <a
+                                       CVS sources are checkedout and snapshotted with version updates.  These may be found in the <a

                                        href="/snapshots/">/snapshots/</a> directory.
                                        </p>
 
                                        href="/snapshots/">/snapshots/</a> directory.
                                        </p>
 


@@ -96,15 +102,20 @@
                                        </p>
 
                                        <h2>
                                        </p>
 
                                        <h2>

-                                       nightly port
+                                       Snapshot port/pkgsrc

                                        </h2>
 
                                        <p>
                                        </h2>
 
                                        <p>

-                                       The source snapshot is automatically converted into an OpenBSD port (ports for other BSD systems not
-                                       yet available).  These may be found in the <a href="/ports-openbsd/">/ports-openbsd/</a> directory.
-                                       You <span class="emph">must</span> have the ports tree installed.
+                                       The source snapshot is automatically converted into OpenBSD port and NetBSD pkgsrc forms at <a
+                                       href="/ports-openbsd/">/ports-openbsd/</a> and <a href="/ports-netbsd/">/ports-netbsd/</a>,
+                                       respectively.  Please read the <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq15.html">OpenBSD Ports FAQ</a> or
+                                       <a href="http://www.netbsd.org/docs/software/packages.html">NetBSD pkgsrc guide</a>, first.

                                        </p>
 
                                        </p>
 

+                                       <h3>
+                                       OpenBSD port
+                                       </h3>
+

                                        <p class="boxed">
                                        # pkg_delete mdocml<br>
                                        # cd /usr/ports/devel/<br>
                                        <p class="boxed">
                                        # pkg_delete mdocml<br>
                                        # cd /usr/ports/devel/<br>


@@ -112,7 +123,20 @@
                                        # ftp -V -o- http://mdocml.bsd.lv/ports-openbsd/mdocml.tar.gz | tar -zvxf -<br>
                                        # cd mdocml<br>
                                        # make build<br>
                                        # ftp -V -o- http://mdocml.bsd.lv/ports-openbsd/mdocml.tar.gz | tar -zvxf -<br>
                                        # cd mdocml<br>
                                        # make build<br>

-                                       # make regress<br>
+                                       # make install
+                                       </p>
+
+                                       <h3>
+                                       NetBSD pkgsrc
+                                       </h3>
+
+                                       <p class="boxed">
+                                       # pkg_delete mdocml<br>
+                                       # cd /usr/pkgsrc/devel/<br>
+                                       # rm -rf mdocml<br>
+                                       # ftp -V -o- http://mdocml.bsd.lv/ports-netbsd/mdocml.tar.gz | tar -zvxf -<br>
+                                       # cd mdocml<br>
+                                       # make build<br>

                                        # make install
                                        </p>
                                </td>
                                        # make install
                                        </p>
                                </td>


@@ -140,7 +164,7 @@
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-                                               Copyright &#169; 2009 Kristaps D&#382;onsons, $Date: 2009/02/25 12:37:18 $
+                                               Copyright &#169; 2009 Kristaps D&#382;onsons, $Date: 2009/02/28 10:13:45 $

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