> From: "Alfred M. Szmidt" <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], > [email protected] > Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2025 03:32:28 -0400 > > The GNU coding standards specify a procedure for generating > documentation (fetch gendocs; then run it) which means that the GNU > Coding Standards themselves do not need a copy of the gendocs script. So > a simple fix for this issue would be to remove gendocs.sh and > gendocs_template from the GNU Coding Standards. (At least that way we'd > have one less copy of these files floating around. :-) > > No thanks, gnulib is 300MiB
On my system, a clone of the Git repository for Texinfo is larger than the one for Gnulib: 371 MiB vs 291 MiB. So if you use Gnulib, you will actually gain disk space. > As far as I'm concerned, this is not an issue with gnustandards. Except that gnustandards has an outdated version of the script.
