On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 06:32:44PM -0500, Karl Berry wrote: > You're right, Lionel sent an assignment already. > Haven't heard from Marbaise or Bachmann for years now, but haven't tried > hard to track anyone down, either, of course. > > Anyway, it's an interesting hypothetical world we're entering into. I > feel I should at least mention it to rms, but if he doesn't have violent > objections (which he might), and you are willing to work on the missing > back end(s), and that running tests on actual manuals works out ok, I > guess I don't have any objection in principle to the replacement. Oh,
If you want to go down this road, I would certainly need lots of help on the info backend since I don't know the format. If you are interested in using texi2html as a makeinfo replacement I could certainly commit to implement the docbook and xml backends. I don't want to push you, though, I am not sure that texi2html is the way to go. > and I guess gettext would have be incorporated. Anyway, I'd surely love Currently texi2html has a sort of replacement of gettext for internationalization. But using gettext instead of reinventing the wheel would certainly be nice, though I don't know how gettext is done in perl. > John, I know you expressed concern about speed, but I guess I just find > it hard to believe that it would matter that much. And, perhaps > texi2html could be sped up; probably not to the point of a compiled > language, but it sounds like a heck of a lot less work than an > entirely new implementation. I never cared about speed, so there is certainly room for improvements, but I fear it will still be very very slow compared with makeinfo and use incredibly more memory. -- Pat
