[xmonad] [PATCH] Update GenerateManpage to new Pandoc API

[Brandon Allbery]

This should probably be submitted as a PR.

On 7/14/20, Adam Sjøgren <asjo at koldfront.dk> wrote:
> 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.
>
> suggesting to change GenerateManPage to use cmark-hs instead:
>
>   "Output in HTML, groff man, LaTeX, CommonMark, and a custom XML format
>    is supported."
>
>    · https://github.com/jgm/cmark-hs
>
> as cmark-hs does not have the amount of dependencies that Pandoc has (6
> vs. 127, in Debian).
>
> What do you all think?
>
> I will be happy to take a stab at changing GenerateManPage to use cmark
> instead of Pandoc, if it sounds useful to you.
>
>
>   Best regards,
>
>     Adam
>
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