Re: doc dir broken...

Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com> writes:
> I do see the smileys, but wonder...
>
> IMHO, it's best to target relatively recent versions of
> developer-only tools like texinfo -- within reason, of course.

If one must make a choice, then one should go for recent versions of
the tools. But if it is possible to be compatible with a wide range
of versions of, say, Texinfo, then that's even better. After all,
even developers don't always have completely up-to-date systems, and
it's inconvenient for them to constantly be upgrading their tools.

So if Bruce can fix our doc build system to be compatible with a
superset of what it's currently compatible with, then that's great.

> I'm sure you realize that even joe-user-who-runs-configure won't need
> to run makeinfo, ... because I presume the *.info files are distributed
> as part of the .tar.gz package.

Absolutely.
Received on Sat Oct 21 14:36:14 2006