Re: [AC] [PACKAGES (ecb)] Only build HTML docs with the explicit

Klaus> But: IMHO it would be very good if XEmacs-packages could be Klaus> shipped and build with HTML-support - the package-system Klaus> should be prepared to support such HTML-support. HTML is a great way to make a huge distributed FTP archive accessible. It (like the Windows Help format it closely resembles) is a crummy way to read technical documentation. It is completely unusable in a TTY. If people _ask_ for it, give it to them. We've got support for it in the build with the html target. Maybe make it a separate binary package. But I don't see why we should encourage use of a decidedly inferior[1] documentation format. OTOH, I can see very strong arguments for ditching the current idiosyncratic source and hypertext formats in favor of XML DTDs. But HTML docs are a regression, not an advance. Footnotes: [1] For our purposes; I can see why say The GIMP would strongly prefer HTML to Texinfo. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.