> Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2013 03:09:31 GMT > From: k...@freefriends.org (Karl Berry) > > I've put up the next pretest: > > ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-4.13.93.tar.xz > http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-4.13.93.tar.xz > > As before, just fixing bugs of various sorts, no new features (since the > last pretest) to speak of. > > Also as before, please send any feedback here, to bug-texinfo.
This pretest builds OK with MinGW, and "make install" does install the Windows batch files. Thanks. The only problem left is that the Windows batch files have a '+' character at the beginning of every line, probably some snafu while applying the patch I sent to introduce those files. Please remove those '+' characters, as they will prevent the batch files from working. > If this version goes ok, I'll make one more pretest with wider > announcements before the real release. Should we do anything about the speed of the new 'makeinfo'? According to my measurements, it is about 18 times slower than the C implementation from 4.13a. (I timed it on a Core i7 machine with a warm cache producing the Emacs Lisp manual: the 4.13.93 implementation took 27 seconds, while the C implementation from 4.13a took just 1.5 sec.) I'm afraid that such slowdown will trigger user complains.