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authorIngo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>2013-10-13 18:34:51 +0000
committerIngo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>2013-10-13 18:34:51 +0000
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For mandoc developers, we now provide a <A HREF="tbl.3.html">tbl(3)</A> library manual and <CODE>gmdiff</CODE>,
a very small, very simplistic groff-versus-mandoc output comparison tool.
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- <P>
- See <A HREF="NEWS">NEWS</A> for historical notes.
- </P>
<P CLASS="news">
23-03-2012: version 1.12.1
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<P>
Lastly, I'm no longer providing binaries, as nobody has asked for them.
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+ <H2>
+ <A>History</A>
+ </H2>
+ <UL>
+ <LI>
+ <A HREF="NEWS">Release notes</A> going back to release 1.9.15, February 18, 2010.
+ Briefly explaining the most important changes in each release in relatively easy terms.
+ Very many changes are not mentioned here.
+ </LI>
+ <LI>
+ <A HREF="history.html">Development history</A> going back to the beginning of the project, November 22, 2008.
+ One-line entries for important commits, releases, merges, hackathons and talks.
+ Makes it easy to find out who did what, and when, and when it became available where.
+ However, this is still incomplete, mentioning only a small fraction of all commits,
+ and to keep the size down, the individual entries are extremely terse and technical.
+ Feel free to look up more details and longer explanations about individual entries
+ in the ChangeLog or in CVS.
+ </LI>
+ <LI>
+ <A HREF="ChangeLog">CVS ChangeLog</A> going back to the beginning of the project.
+ Very technical information of varying quality, strictly chronological.
+ All commits are mentioned, but some messages neglect to mention some changes.
+ Partly terse, partly detailed and verbose. In any case, the ChangeLog is very long -
+ more than 25,000 lines, more than 700 kB.
+ </LI>
+ <LI>
+ <A HREF="/cgi-bin/cvsweb/?cvsroot=mdocml">CVS</A> web interface, going back to the beginning of the project.
+ Source code, diffs and commit messages for each source file. The real thing.
+ </LI>
+ </UL>
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Copyright &#169; 2008&#8211;2011
<A CLASS="external" HREF="http://kristaps.bsd.lv">Kristaps Dzonsons</A>,
&#169; 2013 Ingo Schwarze,
- $Date: 2013/10/10 05:20:30 $
+ $Date: 2013/10/13 18:34:51 $
</SMALL>
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