Re: texinfo-4.13.93 pretest available

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2013 03:09:31 GMT
> From: address@hidden (Karl Berry)
> 
> I've put up the next pretest:
> 
>   ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-4.13.93.tar.xz
>  http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-4.13.93.tar.xz
> 
> As before, just fixing bugs of various sorts, no new features (since the
> last pretest) to speak of.
> 
> Also as before, please send any feedback here, to bug-texinfo.

This pretest builds OK with MinGW, and "make install" does install the
Windows batch files.  Thanks.

The only problem left is that the Windows batch files have a '+'
character at the beginning of every line, probably some snafu while
applying the patch I sent to introduce those files.  Please remove
those '+' characters, as they will prevent the batch files from
working.

> If this version goes ok, I'll make one more pretest with wider
> announcements before the real release.

Should we do anything about the speed of the new 'makeinfo'?
According to my measurements, it is about 18 times slower than the C
implementation from 4.13a.  (I timed it on a Core i7 machine with a
warm cache producing the Emacs Lisp manual: the 4.13.93 implementation
took 27 seconds, while the C implementation from 4.13a took just 1.5
sec.)  I'm afraid that such slowdown will trigger user complains.