Re: texi2dvi: set -e, use tar

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Akim Demaille <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 10:33:18 +0100
> 
>  >> Stop using the idiom "test && action" in favor of "if test; then
>  >> action; fi".
> 
>  > Why? does it do any harm in some situations?
> 
> With set -e it cannot be used (unless you want to assert something)
> since it is likely to exit with failure.

Ah, okay, thanks for reminding me about that.

>  > Can you please describe the situation where texi2dvi is run on a
>  > directory tree like the comment above suggests?  I didn't think this
>  > could happen.
> 
> well, how about this:
> 
> ~/src/thl % grep include th-langage.tex                         nostromo Err 1
> % \includecomment{}%
> % \includecomment{inprogress}
> \include{THL.1/langages}
> \include{THL.1/regexp}
> \include{THL.1/automates}
> \include{THL.1/grammaires}
> \include{THL.1/cfg}
> \include{THL.1/parsage}
> \include{THL.1/anldet}
> \include{THL.1/normalisation}
> \include{THL.2/pda}
> \include{THL.2/cfg}
> \include{THL.2/decidability}
> \include{THL.2/tabulation}
> \include{THL.2/tag}
> 
> That's the very document that behaved weirdly.  See that there are two
> cfg.tex.

What does this case have to do with Texinfo?  texi2dvi is a Texinfo
utility, not a TeX utility.  Are there situations where a Texinfo
document is organized in a tree?

> Are you seriously telling me that tar might not be available on some
> platform we want to support?

I don't about ``we want'', but on MS-Windows, which we _do_ support,
Tar will be available only if the user takes care to download and
install it.