Re: [stali] scope (was: Re: [dev] neatroff)

2016-08-11 Thread Anselm R Garbe
On 11 August 2016 at 11:21, FRIGN wrote: [..] > I am sure suckless.org has a lot of street-cred in the OSS-scene. We > could use this leverage to have a positive influence on a big > distribution people actually use. In the long term, making OpenBSD > better will benefit those who are scared of ma

[stali] scope (was: Re: [dev] neatroff)

2016-08-11 Thread FRIGN
On Thu, 11 Aug 2016 11:03:13 +0200 Anselm R Garbe wrote: Hey Anselm, > I have no problem with OpenBSD per se, but I do think that its scope > is general (server) purpose and that the hardware support in the > embedded non-network space doesn't sound too great to me. linux kernel > + some dedica

Re: [dev] neatroff

2016-08-11 Thread Anselm R Garbe
On 11 August 2016 at 10:10, FRIGN wrote: > On Thu, 11 Aug 2016 09:44:45 +0200 > Anselm R Garbe wrote: >> The stali plan has changed for me a bit during the last year. A couple >> of months ago I tried to get stali self-bootstrappable based on just >> src/. I have now given up on this idea for var

Re: [dev] neatroff

2016-08-11 Thread FRIGN
On Thu, 11 Aug 2016 09:44:45 +0200 Anselm R Garbe wrote: Hey Anselm, > The stali plan has changed for me a bit during the last year. A couple > of months ago I tried to get stali self-bootstrappable based on just > src/. I have now given up on this idea for various reasons: > [...] > Any help is

Re: [dev] neatroff

2016-08-11 Thread Anselm R Garbe
On 10 August 2016 at 08:47, Eli Cohen wrote: > What's the plan for stali? I was under the impression it would be a > "suckless distro" with dwm, surf, st... will X11 stuff be in a > different repository? The stali plan has changed for me a bit during the last year. A couple of months ago I tried

Re: [dev] neatroff

2016-08-09 Thread Anthony J. Bentley
Eli Cohen writes: > I was wondering this. troff is for a lot more than man pages. i did > notice some man files were included, but there's no way to read them. > perhaps nroff would be more appropriate for stali, but i don't know of > a good minimal version. There's always mandoc. But anti-Unix la

Re: [dev] neatroff

2016-08-09 Thread Eli Cohen
I was wondering this. troff is for a lot more than man pages. i did notice some man files were included, but there's no way to read them. perhaps nroff would be more appropriate for stali, but i don't know of a good minimal version. i could try writing one, but that would be a lot more work than ju

Re: [dev] neatroff

2016-08-09 Thread Anselm R Garbe
On 10 August 2016 at 03:56, Eli Cohen wrote: > I'm trying to get neatroff compiled in a stali fashion. I've run into > a slight impasse regarding licensing. for typesetting, neatroff uses > ghostscript fonts, which are gpl. (really my goal with all this is > just to display man pages) stali is o

Re: [dev] neatroff

2016-08-09 Thread Eric Pruitt
On Tue, Aug 09, 2016 at 06:56:35PM -0700, Eli Cohen wrote: > I'm trying to get neatroff compiled in a stali fashion. I've run into > a slight impasse regarding licensing. for typesetting, neatroff uses > ghostscript fonts, which are gpl. (really my goal with all this is > just to display man pages

[dev] neatroff

2016-08-09 Thread Eli Cohen
I'm trying to get neatroff compiled in a stali fashion. I've run into a slight impasse regarding licensing. for typesetting, neatroff uses ghostscript fonts, which are gpl. (really my goal with all this is just to display man pages)