Re: [Groff] Inputfile_caseencapsulation --with-unpack (and --with-zlib) support

[Vaibhaw Pandey]

Steffen,

I took a shot at reviewing this last week. Turned out I don't have enough
context of the groff code base to be able to do a useful review. I am
currently familiarizing myself with the parts of code to which this review
is pertinent. However, given my current abilities and the size of the
patch, I am afraid this will take time.

- Vaibhaw


On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 7:08 PM, Steffen Nurpmeso <address@hidden>
wrote:

> Hallo Werner,
>
> Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> wrote:
>  |I don't have time to review this.  I suggest that you open an
>  |bugtracker issue and post a cleaned-up mbox file for further
>  |inspection.
>
> You don't need to review but could just commit it, it is ok by
> itself.  I.e., i would commit it.
>
>  |It's really time that we find a new groff maintainer...
>
> I'm not the right person to be the "technical leader" of GNU troff
> since i don't know enough, but a Public Domain based commit
> ticket for such general technical cleanups and, as time goes by,
> probably more would be doable.  E.g., having a stable and fully
> UTF-8 aware troff all through the way would be a fantastic
> improvement, but for one i'm sure you have had reasons to go the
> preconv(1) and \[u ] way and then i want to actually understand
> Unicode by creating a text library which does support it.  The
> standard(s) doesn't do so, and will fail to do so for a long time.
> And anyway i am definitely not capable to replace you in such
> a way that you could disappear from the scene, like your
> predecessor did, like you said.  E.g., i've already looked into
> troff because of the hyphenation issue, but of course i cannot
> tell how hacky it would be to implement it now and above all
> wether it would be at all desirable to support \[u ] stuff there,
> or wether a clean UTF-8 (or whatever) rewrite of the processing
> pipeline would be more promising..  Just like i said..
>
>  |Sorry.
>
> Oh no, please, why this?
>
> --steffen
>
>