Re: [Groff] Avoiding the pod2man mistake

[Eric S. Raymond]

Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden>:
> BTW, I see a major obstacle to extend man as you suggest: groff isn't
> always installed with its latest version.  I can imagine to add an
> update to the 1.18 series which comes with the man extensions, but
> many, many platforms won't have this.  So maybe the current way is to
> really advise people to add this stuff to the man page's preamble.

In spite of the fact that it's in the latest version of the man package?

I guess I can see doing both as a transitional measure.
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