Re: C--

[Sascha Wildner <saw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Chris Turner wrote:
> Simon corecode Schubert wrote:
> > However, there won't be any C++ in the list of things to do.  The only thing
> > which uses C++ in DragonFly is groff, and I would be happier without this.
>
> was just thinking about this issue - any thoughts about:
>
>   http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/doctools.html
>
> Seems to be mostly under CDDL[1]_, which might be 'yet another'
> license to throw into the mix, but based on a quick scan (IANAL),
> doesn't seem much different than the GNU/Groff combination, plus
> it's more like 'real' **ix  ..
>
> Probably not anyone's top priority .. and from what I understand
> groff is a bit 'smarter' about processing pipelines, so this might break
> various pkgsrc items that expect a groff, but in any case, would remove
> C++ code from base. Plus there's grap(1)!
>
> - Chris
>
> .. [1] http://www.opensolaris.org/os/licensing/opensolaris_license/

Hmm, looks interesting. I'll play with it...

Sascha

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