Hi! On 4/2/23 05:57, Mingye Wang wrote: > Hi uh, > > A recent catman patch by Alejandro drove me to try and look at what > the current state of man2html is like, and to my dismay the Makefile > didn't work with the "man2html 3.0.1" on my MSYS2 installation. It > turns out there are at least three such programs around: > > * a Perl program (which is the one I got) dating back to 1997 and > still having a live page on "nongnu" > * a C program by (presumably) Bruce Korb (can't find the source code!) > of AutoOpts. > * a C program by Verhoeven and Brouwer stuck without a homepage on the > web, last updated as man-1.6g.tar.gz. (+39 patches from Debian, welp.) > > I assume from the invocations that Brouwer's version is the intended > one. Do we want to specify that in the file, or do we just wait for it > to be replaced by groff? That has been in the Makefile since the times of Andries's maintainership (man-pages-1.47, year 2001, to be precise). I only updated the recipe to be a Makefile instead of a bash script inserted in a Makefile recipe. So yes, it seems to be made for his own program. Currently, it works on Debian's man2html, although the produced pages are far from what you would expect from online man pages such as the ones in <https://man7.org>. I would say wait for it to be replaced. HTML is not a priority for me right now, and I wouldn't lose a single commit in documenting that detail about man2html, because, well, I don't expect anyone to use this feature. :) Said, that, don't expect me to replace that very soon. I have other more important plans, such as adopting groff's new .MR macro (which incidentally will also improve the HTML pages generated by groff whenever that is done in the future, as will improve all other output formats). Regards, Alex > > Regards, > Mingye Wang -- <http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/> GPG key fingerprint: A9348594CE31283A826FBDD8D57633D441E25BB5
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