Hello everybody. In Automake, the need to support split '.info' output files adds some annoying complexity in several places; and for backward-compatibility, that is sadly bound not to change, surely not in the near future, and probably not even in the distant one.
But in the Automake-NG fork we are breaking backward compatibility in several places already, so I'd like to grab the occasion and get rid of the support for split info files there. But I'm not sure if this would be a good move, because I'm not aware of what the purpose of splitting info files in the first place. Is that done for performance or memory saving reasons (which I assume were relevant in the past, but that, with today's powerful machines, will get less and less important in the future, shrinking to irrelevance soon enough)? Or is there some more subtle and fundamental reason? Thanks, Stefano
