Ahoy, the first reply and it’s already one sent by an authority. I’m impressed.
My primary operating system is Windows and Windows is not an inviting environment for make recipes. :-) The original attempt was to have a more user-friendly UI for groff, so even people who are afraid of the command-line can have an easy start with it. Naturally, most of them will upgrade to makefiles later… SSL is used for update checks- it probably requires OpenSSL libraries. I’ll leave a FAQ some time later, I guess. tux0r is my legal (“artistic”) name in Germany - as an alternative to my birth name, of course. > On Freitag, März 11, 2022 at 7:39 PM, Douglas McIlroy > <douglas.mcil...@dartmouth.edu (mailto:douglas.mcil...@dartmouth.edu)> wrote: > > Its main functionality is “calling groff with a number of parameters". > > How might this be or become more than lipstick on a make(1) recipe? > > I imported the windows package and started it. It immediately reported > that it couldn't find SSL. This smelled bad. What was its intent? > > Finally, I'm used to hearing from real people on this mailing list, > which is not to say tux0r isn't welcome, merely that I'd like to know > who it is. > > Doug McIlroy >
