From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26605 invoked from network); 29 Nov 2004 20:44:13 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 29 Nov 2004 20:44:13 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.41) id 1CYsNZ-0003Zl-S5 for arch-gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 20:44:13 +0000 Received: (qmail 24787 invoked by uid 89); 29 Nov 2004 20:44:13 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 23065 invoked from network); 29 Nov 2004 20:44:13 +0000 Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 14:48:57 -0600 From: Grant Goodyear To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Message-ID: <20041129204857.GA4808@server.grantgoodyear.org> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <5d3341c004112823364cf77582@mail.gmail.com> <200411291017.20933.vapier@gentoo.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="rwEMma7ioTxnRzrJ" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200411291017.20933.vapier@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] man pages - converted to DocBook/HTML X-Archives-Salt: 46ebc305-55f8-4444-a542-059040c641f8 X-Archives-Hash: 1d7052edd26319c790a0fadc8f30cce9 --rwEMma7ioTxnRzrJ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Vapier wrote: [Mon Nov 29 2004, 09:17:20AM CST] > On Monday 29 November 2004 02:36 am, Mark Miller wrote: > > I was wondering if the Gentoo Development team would be interested in > > a Python script that would automatically convert all the troff and all > > the other formats of man pages into a DocBook format, which HTML can > > easily be generated out of, and incorporate this into the Gentoo > > system. >=20 > for what purpose ? to have HTML versions of all manpages that exist ? > -mike I've always been really impressed with the *BSDs online manpage databases, but those databases make more sense for the monolithic *BSDs than they do for the quite heterogeneous Linux distros. That said, I do think that it would be nice if we had the man pages for Gentoo tools available online. I would suggest using man2html instead of a full conversion to docbook, however. Let's see, that would mean converting the man pages in portage, certainly, as well as those in gentoolkit and gentoolkit-dev. It looks like baselayout also includes some man pages, and I believe that I included man pages for our mailwrapper package. Are there other Gentoo-specific man pages that we should include? Should we also include the tenshi and keychain man pages since they're predominantly Gentoo projects? Oh, what about the various *-config programs' man pages? -g2boojum- --=20 Grant Goodyear=09 Gentoo Developer g2boojum@gentoo.org http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76 --rwEMma7ioTxnRzrJ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBq4s5ptxxUuD2W3YRAvGbAJ9ZDmlTqCE136u2umr4/SAgjcDeKwCff+fs dvrrbQnAYtKhXYmT+i/EFSc= =d2mS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --rwEMma7ioTxnRzrJ--