Subject: Re: Compiling NetBSD with another compiler (ditroff & tools are available!)
To: NetBSD User-Level Technical Discussion List <tech-userlevel@NetBSD.org>
From: Greg A. Woods <woods@planix.ca>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 10/07/2007 23:55:32
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At Fri, 05 Oct 2007 17:58:48 -0400, I wrote:
Subject: Re: Compiling NetBSD with another compiler.
>=20
> It would still probably be worth the effort to figure out the status of
> ditroff and if/how it could be properly open-sourced.  Maybe the AST
> toolkit folks could help.

I keep forgetting about Plan 9 and the fact it is now open source.

Probably the best and most up-to-date version of ditroff _is_ open
sourced, and it _is_ the most recent full DWB code (modified as
necessary to port it to Plan 9, of course, including full Unicode
support):

	http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/plan9/sys/src/cmd/troff/

And in and about with it and all the related DWB tools you'll find all
the other stuff, including the postscript post-processors, printer
filters, etc., etc., etc., e.g. including:

	http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/plan9/sys/src/cmd/postscript

If I'm not mistaken porting Plan 9 user-land programs such as this back
to the world of POSIX based systems is already a solved problem too.

--=20
						Greg A. Woods
						Planix, Inc.

<woods@planix.com>     +1 416 489-5852 x122     http://www.planix.com/

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