Re: Parsing groff output for manpages instead.

[Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>]

On Tue, 2010-12-14 at 23:59 +0000, Rupert Swarbrick wrote:
> Rupert Swarbrick <rswarbrick gmail com>
> writes:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've spent a few hours staring at the bug
> > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=477788 and thought I could
> > hack together something based on the groff intermediate format.
> >
> > And I've attached the resulting patch. Also, I've attached the new
> > version of yelp-man-parser.c, since the changes are massive enough to
> > make the diff pretty unhelpful.
> >
> 
> Just for laughs, I had a look at the list of bugs in the 'Man pages'
> section for Yelp.
> 
> I *think* this patch fixes the following (report years in brackets)
> 
> 347094 (2006)
> 349677 (2007)
> 497559 (2007)
> 513247 (2008)
> 554138 (2008)
> 566519 (2009)
> 575457 (2009)
> 588164 (2009)
> 602334 (2009)
> 636276 (2010)

Rupert, you're my personal hero of the week. Short of me roughly
porting them over to the new Yelp 3 API, man and info haven't
seen any work whatsoever for years.

Sorry I've been slow responding. There's a lot to digest in all
these patches. I'll look at them more closely within the week.

Thanks,
Shaun