[bug #55941] [PATCH] test-nroff: Create this file to accompany "test-groff"

[G. Branden Robinson]

Update of bug #55941 (project groff):

                  Status:                    None => Wont Fix               
             Assigned to:                    None => gbranden               
             Open/Closed:                    Open => Closed                 

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Follow-up Comment #3:

I concur with Dave and Ingo.  `test-groff` is nice and convenient but I don't
think we need any other special wrappers.

Also, we really need more unit and regression tests, and we're slowly getting
them.

(I guess you could say test-groff serves as a kind of integration test.  It
doesn't quite simulate an installation environment, but  once I learned how it
works I realized it comes pretty close.)

I also don't quite grasp Bjarni's original use case.

Why

DEFINE nroff test-nroff -mandoc -rF=0

when you could just as easily

DEFINE nroff nroff -whatever -options -you -like

As Dave noted in #57510, there is a bit of tension between nroff and {g,t}roff
in that the former does locale detection but lacks a -P option.  The locale
detection in particular makes it not a simple subsetted compatibility wrapper
for troff as it claims to be.

But since it's my intention to add -P to nroff, I think we can get the best of
both worlds.

I'm closing this as wontfix for now, but if Bjarni can come up with a more
compelling argument for test-nroff I could reconsider.



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