From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2024 15:30:28 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: TODO: avoid nroff
X-Git-Tag: curl-8_7_0~187
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=089b4e36e4d2602167cb08ba87d92e1fac35ed24;p=thirdparty%2Fcurl.git

TODO: avoid nroff

Instead of adjusting roffit, skip the nroff step.

Closes #12919
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diff --git a/docs/TODO b/docs/TODO
index dafd87a2f6..ee537b913f 100644
--- a/docs/TODO
+++ b/docs/TODO
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@
  18.29 --retry and transfer timeouts
 
  19. Build
- 19.1 roffit
+ 19.1 avoid nroff
  19.2 Enable PIE and RELRO by default
  19.3 Do not use GNU libtool on OpenBSD
  19.4 Package curl for Windows in a signed installer
@@ -1289,13 +1289,15 @@
  https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=22565
 
 
-
 19. Build
 
-19.1 roffit
+19.1 avoid nroff
 
- Consider extending 'roffit' to produce decent ASCII output, and use that
- instead of (g)nroff when building src/tool_hugehelp.c
+ With the switch to the markdown-like documentation format since curl 8.6.0,
+ it should (with a manageable amount of work) be possible to render an ASCII
+ version of the man page without involving nroff and thus remove that
+ dependency for building the hugehelp file, used to build in the man page into
+ the curl command line tool.
 
 19.2 Enable PIE and RELRO by default