[SPAM] Re: texinfo Makefile.am

[Patrice Dumas]

On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 11:18:50PM +0000, Karl Berry wrote:
>     +dist-hook:
>     + tar -C $(srcdir) -c -f - --exclude CVS tp | tar -C $(distdir) -x -f -
> 
> Why do we want tp in the dist at this point?  As far as I understand
> from Patrice, it's not ready.  And when it is ready, it will be merged
> into the configure stuff in the standard way.

I am still unsure how easy it is.  I did a little bit of investigations
when I started tp/ on integrating a perl module (which is what tp/ basically
is) with autoconf/automake but I found nothing obvious.  Also if tp/ is 
to be distributed separately too (which I think would be nice) there should
also certainly be some adjustments.

> And yes, there are lots and lots of tests for make distcheck to go
> through.  I don't know if it's feasible or desirable to omit the
> lengthiest ones.  I'm sure I will want to figure that out when we get to
> the glorious day of actually making a new distribution :).

Right now those are the tests of texi2html that are run, not those of
tp/.  Current tp tests are much better focused, and, in addition, tp is
a bit faster.  Parser, Info and Plaintext tests are already done, and they
don't take too much time, in my opinion.

In any case, I fully agree that current texi2html tests are much too long,
I even think that they almost become detrimental for the developpement...

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Pat