Re: texi2dvi: A more pleasant way to compile

[Karl Berry]

Here my thoughts on Akim's patch:

- It is a good thing.

- Stepan's bringing up distcheck failures makes me swing back to
  believing it should not be the default after all, and therefore we
  have to have the dual/complex implementation.  Sorry Akim.

- Therefore we need an option to get the new behavior.  I don't like
  --build, that option already means something completely different in
  configure.  How about --separate-dirs (a la du :)?

- We should also implement some option to do the rm's for Automake, as
  Alexandre suggested, so the next version of Automake can use it, and
  then we can make the new behavior the default.  I don't like
  --mostlyclean for the name of this option, because the coding
  standards explicitly say (non-distributed) DVI files should be removed
  at `clean', not `mostlyclean'.  (Not that I especially agree with
  this, but it's not worth time debating.)  How about --removefiles?
  
- I think a short README inside the *.t2d directory is a good idea (just
  saying "created by texi2dvi, see source for info" or some such, maybe).

Alexandre/Akim, does it sound ok?  Are you willing?

Thanks,
k