Hi Karl, On Fr, 14 Aug 2009, Karl Berry wrote: > I'd like to propose that the update-info-dir(8) program would be > accepted to the the official texinfo package. > > Sorry, I don't want to do so. I don't want to write the documentation, > I don't want lots of users to run it willy-nilly thinking something > perfect will happen, etc. Plus the script is hardly in the usual GNU > style or using the best constructs, as Norbert himself would be the > first to admit. Finally, we'd want to have copyright assigned.
Documentation we have in man page, the copyright I think I have assigned already to FSF AFAIR, for some contributions to makeinfo which probably extends to that script. But I agree that it is not perfect style ... I asked several times for improvements but never got any good suggestions ;-) You know that my sh code is far from perfect ;-) > the latest version[1] and its manual page below. > > Thanks, I'll update the copy in texinfo. But it isn't part of texinfo, so do you add it or not? Best wishes Norbert ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Norbert Preining <[email protected]> Vienna University of Technology Debian Developer <[email protected]> Debian TeX Group gpg DSA: 0x09C5B094 fp: 14DF 2E6C 0307 BE6D AD76 A9C0 D2BF 4AA3 09C5 B094 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NETHER POPPLETON (n. obs.) A pair of P.J.Proby's trousers. --- Douglas Adams, The Meaning of Liff
