Hi Marc, Marc Espie wrote on Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 11:44:32AM +0200: > On Wed, Jul 15 '20 at 05.50 NZST, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
>> I never found pandoc useful for anything - so much so that i never >> even felt a need to evalute its quality for real. I dimly remember >> that on rare occasions, i saw man(7) output generated by pandoc, >> and if i remeber correctly, that was of poor quality - but i'm not >> sure and it isn't terribly relevant because pandoc is used very >> rarely in practice in the first place. >> >> What do you want to do with it? > I have colleagues that use pandoc to produce docs, because it's simple > and heck, they've normalized on it. > > I myself prefer to generate documents straight from LaTeX, but it means > I can't directly work with them. > > That's most often the situation. > > I would also like a pandoc port. That does sound fair, and it teaches me that even for things where it may be hard to come up with a reasonable statement of the form "it's a good solution to solve problem X", there can indeed be a good reason to have a port. Even if "useful to send HTML email" sounds about as oxymoronic to me as it gets. =:-o > There are about 80 haskell dependencies for > it, none of it is in our ports tree yet. No way i'm going to help with a beast of that kind, of course. :) In the most important port i maintain (also in the textproc category and useful for documentation), i pay particular attention to make sure that it never grows a single dependency. Not even one. Yours, Ingo
