Re: [Bug: xemacs-beta tip] decade-old version of texinfo.tex
Samuel Bronson writes:
> 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?)
I am too. The point is that we've had problems in the past with
people using Texinfo constructions that don't work on common distros
(eg, Debian stable) because the available implementation is too old.
installed, too. (But is someone like that really going to be
expecting
trouble-free TeXing of a 2010 version of a manual?)
My feeling is that they shouldn't have to worry about it. Period. A
policy of not caring if they annoy users who don't believe in
"breaking what don't need no fixin' nohow" is one of the reasons
I'm
not interested in working on GNU Emacs. I'd be very sad if anything
we did caused unnecessary breakage for someone, although I won't veto
it if somebody else really wants to do something about the old version
of texinfo.tex.
If modern makeinfo/texinfo.tex has some killer features that we just
have to have, let us know about them. (We do have a minimum version
requirement for building the packages, although it's pretty old
itself.) Otherwise, what harm is done?
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