Re: custom NS and NE man(7) macros

[G. Branden Robinson]

At 2023-09-25T06:08:18-0500, Dave Kemper wrote:
> On 9/25/23, G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com> wrote:
> > If my reading of groff release history is correct,[1] groff 1.19
> > came out in February 2004
> 
> The release of groff 1.19 was announced in Apr 2003
> (http://lists.gnu.org/r/groff/2003-04/msg00161.html), and 1.19.1 in
> May 2004 (http://lists.gnu.org/r/groff/2004-05/msg00168.html), though
> none of that really moves the needle on the point you were making.

Thanks, Dave.  I was sloppy and used the date stamps on files in FSF's
'ftp.gnu.org' site, and made of myself an unreliable authority.

Post groff-1.23.0, I updated groff's historical change log files to
record release date information,[1] based on archives of the groff and
info-gnu mailing lists where possible, and falling back to the dates on
the FTP site only when necessary.  As we just saw, those dates are not
reliably preserved; the site is susceptible to damage, repair, and
reorganization and so the files' date stamps are not necessarily stable.

I should have used my own resource, and didn't.  Just goes to show--if
one starts down the path of narcissism, best follow it to the end. ;-)

Regards,
Branden

[1] https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/tree/

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