On Sat, Oct 25, 2025 at 08:46:39PM +0100, Gavin Smith wrote: > I don't know what the context to this email is, but the copy of > "gendocs-sh" that exists in the Texinfo sources is under the > "contrib/perldoc-all" subdirectory which is code to generate Texinfo > from the Perl POD documentation. (It is not used by anybody, to my > knowledge.) > > It is hardly a "canonical" source for this file (gendocs.sh) and it should > be considered specific to the perldoc-all directory. I expect you would get > the canonical version from gnulib. In general you should treat anything > under the "contrib" directory in the Texinfo sources with a degree of caution.
I see no reason at all to have the gendocs-sh and gendoc template in this directory. Also I see no reason to use a different gendocs-sh and gendoc template in this directory and in the doc directory. I will remove the gendocs-sh and gendoc template and use the gnulib one as we do in doc/. -- Pat
