> Does anyone object to just deleting groffer? Terminate with extreme prejudice.
IMHO, anything that can be achieved with an alias or shell one-liner really doesn't warrant its own executable. On Tue, 21 Apr 2020 at 22:32, G. Branden Robinson < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Ingo! > > At 2020-04-19T13:55:37+0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > > G. Branden Robinson wrote on Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 07:16:58AM -0400: > > > commit 762fab3e454786cc5e666f6d6324f455470b8ea4 > [...] > > > roff2.1.man generates several nearly-identical pages from the > > > same source*. Use register name based on the name of the > > > generated page, so they don't collide. > [...] > > > * This seems pretty gratituitous to me; their interfaces don't > > > differ at all (no difference in accepted options, for example), > > > and each page makes reference to all the others. I find that a > > > dubious choice, and would just have one page with a > > > comma-delimited set of topics in the "Name" section. > > > > Indeed, good find, that's utter stupidity. It would be nice to have > > that cleaned up. > > > > Then again, the whole contrib/groffer directory is an abomination > > that i suggest should be deleted outright, without any replacement. > > It's fragile wrappers on top of wrappers on top of wrappers (remember > > that even groff itself is already a wrapper!), of ridiculous > > complexity, that provide no additional functionality whatsoever. > > > > Less bloat is more. > > > > It is a landmark symptom of the absense of software design when, > > instead of making the program itself small, simple, and easy to > > use, people write a wrapper that clearly doesn't achieve simplicity > > either, neither of the code nor of the usage. > > Every time I look at cleaning it up, I despair of the task. It saps my > energy to even contemplate it. Plenty of Bernd's other contributions to > groff I find interesting or valuable, but groffer, to me, just seems > ill-conceived. > > It seems like a wrapper around grog(1) that got out of control. In my > opinion, we should, at most, be advising people how to write shell > aliases or functions to wrap grog and target an output device of their > preference. Let people help themselves instead of trying to be > everything to everyone. > > So, what do the folks on the list think? > > Does anyone object to just deleting groffer? > > Regards, > Branden >
