Hello Karl, On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 11:41:40AM -0600, Karl Berry wrote: > > I suggest that the info files should not be distributed by default. > > Well, I strongly, strongly, disagree, and so do the GNU standards, and > GNU practice for the last 20 years. I can't see how dropping them would > do anything but cause trouble.
well, dropping them means removing a redundant file(s) from the tarball. I admit that this is only a minor benefit, so I have no problem to accept your opinion: OK, *.info are distributed. > Let me know if we really need to debate this :). But anyway, if you can invest a few minutes to explain me the possible troubles, I think I could learn from it. First, I said that without Texinfo, make doesn't install the info files. There two possible usages: 1) read it directly with emacs 2) install it manually (edit the dir file) 3) (Have I missed something?) Which of the above is done often enough that you care about it? (Do not tell me that _you_ edit dirfile by hand, you would have no problems installing Texinfo in a second.) BTW: Does emacs have something like M-x install-info-file, thus duplicating the functionality of install-info? Another question: I searched standards.info trying to find a place which says that *.info should be disstributed before I posted the proposal. I haven't found it. Where is it? I repeat that I don't try to advocate my proposal, I ask questions just to learn more. Happy New Year to you, Karl! Stepan _______________________________________________ Texinfo home page: http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/ [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-texinfo
