Hi,

On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 07:01:36AM +0200, Adam Sjøgren wrote:

>Adam writes:

>> One of the Debian developers maintaining the Pandoc package remarked:

> > I no longer use xmonad myself, but remember frm when I did that the
> > biggest frustration was that you'd need a working development
> > environment, and each time Haskell packages went out of sync (using
> > Debian unstable), xmonad was one of the last ones to get back in
> > sync. I imagine that a decoupling from Pandoc might change that.

[...]

I will be happy to take a stab at changing GenerateManPage to use cmark
instead of Pandoc, if it sounds useful to you.

I have tried doing so now - Pandoc does more than cmark, so it's more
intrusive than I would have liked.
[...]

I tried an alternative approach: drop the Haskell dependency on Pandoc/cmark entirely and use the command-line interface, which I believe is more stable than the Haskell library interface.

I implemented that here: https://github.com/xmonad/xmonad/pull/260

Do you folks think this is a viable option or are there any pitfalls that I'm not seeing? Any feedback highly appreciated.