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what should be installed in the default case?


From: Patrice Dumas
Subject: what should be installed in the default case?
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:01:32 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14)

Hello,

texi2html is basically integrated in texinfo. Right now I haven't 
changed anything in what was installed, so the C-makeinfo and 
texi2html are installed.

texi2html may be installed under 3 names: texi2html, makeinfo and
texi2any. As makeinfo, it is fully compatible with C-makeinfo, 
as texi2any, the default output is raw text and it accepts more 
options, it is meant to be output format independent. And as
texi2html, options are the same than texi2any, but not parsed
as gnu getopt, and, when generating html --- the default output 
format --- there are some incompatibilities with makeinfo.

I think that texi2html should not be installed as long as 
it is distributed in a separate tarball. Now there could be an
installation target that installs it as a link to the installed
script.

Here are the questions:

* should texi2any be installed? Or should makeinfo have the 
  texi2any options added and still be used as the converter
  of choice?
* if texi2any is installed
   - should the makeinfo perl replace the C-makeinfo? If 
     yes should C-makeinfo still be installed under a different 
     name?
   - should texi2any be advertized as the tool to use instead
     of makeinfo?

Opinions?

--
Pat




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