At 2022-08-14T16:15:54+0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > > I also have a PR pending with Illumos. > > https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/pull/83 > > Illumos isn't doing development on GitHub. Yeah, I promptly got a lengthy follow-up from a member of the core team pointing me to even more lengthy contribution procedures. (I guess this explains the "-gate" suffix in the GH project name.) > Besides, Illumos is less of a problem because they have been using > mandoc as the default manual page formatter since July 2014. Ahh, so the general Illumos user won't suffer mishandling of `\~` anyway--not in man pages, at least. > All the same, getting \~ supported in their general-purpose > roff implementation is no doubt nice to have, too. Yes. But I don't have the spoons to go through their formal contribution procedure. I think my PR will have to sit there as a form of incompatibility notice, and someone else will need to pick up the patch and advocate for its incorporation. I also have a serious handicap in that I can't test my patch; I don't run Illumos. (Plan 9 from User Space makes it easy to test _in situ_.) I don't blame them for having a lot of process; their concerns are surely more with sexy but delicate, high-stakes stuff like ZFS and DTrace. Not post-1989 developments in troff. > That reduces my converns mostly to commercial UNIXes and potentially > to a few ad-hoc conversion tools we are not even aware of. > Consequently, the converns aren't 100% resolved yet but getting > closer to becoming theoretical concerns. If it's only commercial > UNIXes and unknown tools that may break, the improved typesetting > quality may be worth the risk. And we don't know how many, if any, of those are even _maintained_, so even if the knowledge of what to patch were available, the will may be lacking. I'll take my easy win and move on to the next problem. :D Regards, Branden
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