Re: [Bug: xemacs-beta tip] decade-old version of texinfo.tex
On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 2:26 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org> wrote:
Samuel Bronson writes:
> Hey, I just noticed that there's a copy of texinfo.tex in the man/
> directory that identifies itself as:
>
> \def\texinfoversion{1999-09-25.10}
The question, how much more recent a version can we be pretty sure
that people will have it? I know people running Debian "woody", but
none of them are Emacs users so I don't think we care. Still, not
everybody will be running Lunatic Lake Trout or whatever Ubuntu
current is.
The point is that that manual can be referred to as sort of a standard
for what syntax we can and can't put into our manuals.
Er, I'm actually referring to the implementation here, not the manual
-- ".tex", not ".texi". (I suspect the latest versions of the manual
are under some form of the GFDL?)
What bothers me is that the copy of texinfo.tex in that directory will
shadow whatever newer version is probably installed. Now that you
mention it, though, I guess it's *possible* to have an older version
installed, too. (But is someone like that really going to be expecting
trouble-free TeXing of a 2010 version of a manual?)
If it does worry you, there is always the option of pulling in
<http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/texinfo/doc/texinfo.tex?revision=1.241...
(2007-06-27.09) or earlier, which are licensed GPLv2 or later. MiKTeX
seems to come with version 2007-06-20.13.
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