manpages is mdoc(7)

[Jan Stary]

On Mar 30 21:47:38, raimue at macports.org wrote:
> On 03/30/2017 09:26 PM, Jan Stary wrote:
> > Just forget it. My intentions when proposing the mdoc(7) rewrite
> > were the opposite of having asciidoc and docbook and xml/xsl ...
> 
> While the dependencies seem quite heavy,

(to say the least)

> languages like man(7)/mdoc(7) just fell out of fashion

The vast majority of UNIX manpages is written in these languages.

> and rarely anyone still understands it or is willing to learn it...
> The intention of using AsciiDoc is to make contributions easier, and it has
> proven its fitness for this task in other open source projects such as Git.

I doubt very much that people cannot read or write mdoc(7).
As for contributions, does that mean people contributed
those asciidoc rewriter to macports?

Anyway, the mdoc(7) rewrite is apparently not happening.

	Jas