manpages is mdoc(7)

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Mar 30, 2017, at 15:11, Jan Stary wrote:

> 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?

Clemens contributed most of the asciidoc rewrites of the manpages.

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

Right; the asciidoc rewrite of the manpages was just released to the public in MacPorts 2.4 so there's probably no interest in changing it again so soon.