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authorYorhel <git@yorhel.nl>2018-01-21 08:23:57 +0100
committerYorhel <git@yorhel.nl>2018-01-21 08:23:57 +0100
commit8031a909891def82ca5a0698d2906257a294ffef (patch)
tree5c85b5fd297a711fba5ee3d145f438107f65025f
parent035538f156c0710c5c51552efe176271c655f7bd (diff)
Some improvements to the about text + link to the new Arch man pages
-rwxr-xr-xwww/index.pl36
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/www/index.pl b/www/index.pl
index f56bb5e..e9d8304 100755
--- a/www/index.pl
+++ b/www/index.pl
@@ -143,6 +143,7 @@ sub home {
li; a href => 'http://linux.die.net/man/', 'die.net'; txt ' - Seems to be based on an RPM-based Linux distribution.'; end;
li; a href => 'http://manpages.org/', 'manpages.org'; txt ' - Lots of mostly-nicely formatted man pages, no clue about source.'; end;
li; a href => 'http://www.manpagez.com/', 'manpagez.com'; txt ' - Mac OS X, has some GTK-html and texinfo documentation as well.'; end;
+ li; a href => 'https://jlk.fjfi.cvut.cz/arch/manpages/dev', 'Arch Linux Man Pages'; end;
li; a href => 'https://manpages.debian.org/', 'Debian Man Pages'; end;
li; a href => 'https://www.dragonflybsd.org/cgi/web-man', 'DragonFlyBSD Man Pages'; end;
li; a href => 'http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi', 'FreeBSD.org Man Pages'; end;
@@ -162,22 +163,27 @@ sub about {
h2 'Goal';
p; lit <<' _';
- The state of online indices of manual pages is a sad one. Existing sites
- only offer you a single version of a man page: From one origin, and often
- only in a single language. Most don't even tell you where the manual
- actually originated from, making it very hard to determine whether the
- manual you found actually applies to your situation and even harder to find
- a manual from a specific system. Additionally, some sites render the manuals
- in an unreadable way, don't correctly handle special formatting - like
- tables - or don't correctly display non-ASCII characters.
+ The state of online indices of manual pages used to be a sad one. Existing
+ sites used to only offer you a single version of a man page: From one
+ origin, and often only in a single language. Most didn't even tell you where
+ the manual actually originated from, making it very hard to determine
+ whether the manual you found actually applied to your situation and even
+ harder to find a manual for a specific system. Additionally, some sites
+ rendered the manuals in an unreadable way, didn't correctly handle special
+ formatting - like tables - or didn't correctly display non-ASCII characters.
<br /><br />
- Manned.org was created in order to improve this situation. This site aims to
- index the manual pages from a variaty of systems, both old and new, and
- allows you to browse through the various versions of a manual page to find
- out how each system behaves. The manuals are stored in the database as
- UTF-8, and are passed through <a
- href="http://www.gnu.org/software/groff/">groff</a> to render them in
- (mostly) the same way as they are displayed in your terminal.
+ Nowadays there are many good alternatives, but Manned.org was one of the
+ sites created in order to improve situation. This site aims to index the
+ manual pages from a variaty of systems, both old and new, and allows you to
+ browse through the various versions of a manual page to find out how each
+ system behaves. The manuals are stored in the database as UTF-8, and are
+ passed through <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/groff/">groff</a> to
+ render them in (mostly) the same way as they are displayed in your terminal.
+ <br /><br />
+ This website is <a href="https://g.blicky.net/manned.git/">open source</a>
+ (MIT licensed) and written in a combination of Perl and Rust. The entire
+ PostgreSQL database is available for download (see "Database download"
+ below).
_
end;