> From: Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 10:33:18 +0100
>
> >> Stop using the idiom "test && action" in favor of "if test; then
> >> action; fi".
>
> > Why? does it do any harm in some situations?
>
> With set -e it cannot be used (unless you want to assert something)
> since it is likely to exit with failure.
Ah, okay, thanks for reminding me about that.
> > Can you please describe the situation where texi2dvi is run on a
> > directory tree like the comment above suggests? I didn't think this
> > could happen.
>
> well, how about this:
>
> ~/src/thl % grep include th-langage.tex nostromo Err 1
> % \includecomment{}%
> % \includecomment{inprogress}
> \include{THL.1/langages}
> \include{THL.1/regexp}
> \include{THL.1/automates}
> \include{THL.1/grammaires}
> \include{THL.1/cfg}
> \include{THL.1/parsage}
> \include{THL.1/anldet}
> \include{THL.1/normalisation}
> \include{THL.2/pda}
> \include{THL.2/cfg}
> \include{THL.2/decidability}
> \include{THL.2/tabulation}
> \include{THL.2/tag}
>
> That's the very document that behaved weirdly. See that there are two
> cfg.tex.
What does this case have to do with Texinfo? texi2dvi is a Texinfo
utility, not a TeX utility. Are there situations where a Texinfo
document is organized in a tree?
> Are you seriously telling me that tar might not be available on some
> platform we want to support?
I don't about ``we want'', but on MS-Windows, which we _do_ support,
Tar will be available only if the user takes care to download and
install it.
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