RFR: JDK-8180178 Restructure existing man pages according to JEP 299
Magnus Ihse Bursie
magnus.ihse.bursie at oracle.com
Thu May 11 12:56:57 UTC 2017
In preparation for JDK-8178317, the existing man page troff sources will
be moved to their corresponding modules, according to the layout
determined by JEP 299. During the docs build, they will be copied to the
man directory in the docs image, as specified by JEP 299. No markdown
conversion will be done for now, though.
Note that this will only apply to OpenJDK, not the Oracle JDK, which do
not ship the man pages from the OpenJDK repository. (This has not been
the case since at least JDK 8.) Also note that the man pages themselves
have not been updated. I did update "JDK 8" to "JDK 9", but I have made
no other changes. Nevertheless, I believe having man pages (even if
outdated) is better for the community than not having man pages.
The jhat and jsadebug tools have been removed in JDK 9, so I removed
these man pages as well.
Prior to this reorganisation, the man pages were duplicated in three
directories, one for each of solaris, linux and bsd. I have verified
that for the remaining man pages, there were no substantial difference
between these versions.
Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8180178
WebRev:
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ihse/JDK-8180178-restructure-man-pages/webrev.01
/Magnus
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