Re: Broken makeinfo? [was: Re: Fix this]
Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic(a)iskon.hr> writes:
"Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull(a)sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>
writes:
> Or maybe we don't care, because we don't care if people can build
> their own info docs or nobody ever does?
If we ship the pre-built info docs with the source tarballs (as GNU
programs normally do), then people's ability to build their own docs
with obsolete makeinfo's is not of paramount importance.
If we do not distribute the pre-built infos, we should at least try to
make sure people can build them with the versions of makeinfo that are
generally available. Depending on the latest-and-greatest versions of
software in order to build XEmacs is permissible, but annoying.
> Or maybe we should think about abandoning (!) Texinfo in favor of a
> real DTD not defined by an implementation?
Please please not that discussion again. Texinfo serves nicely for what
we want to do.
Unless a LOT of the SGML display engine was done in C, which we want to
avoid right now I think :)
-bp