texinfo-5.0.90 pretest available

[Karl Berry]

Here's the first pretest for the next release:

  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-5.0.90.tar.xz
 http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-5.0.90.tar.xz

The NEWS below.  As you might expect, this was about fixing bugs and
reducing incompatibilities found in 5.0.  Keep those reports coming :).
(Please send any feedback here, to bug-texinfo.)

Thanks,
Karl & Patrice

* texi2any:
  . irregular sectioning trees (see 5.0 news item) produce a warning
    rather than an error.
  . @set in the middle of the line no longer produces a warning.
  
* info:
  . lzip (.lz) compression supported.
  
* install-info:
  . lzip (.lz) compression supported.


* Intentional incompatibilities with the past makeinfo:
  . The previous makeinfo implementation accepted a block of text inside
    @itemize, @enumerate, etc., without any @item.  This is semantically
    inconsistent, leading to problems with some backends, and thus now
    produces a warning.
    
  . The previous makeinfo accepted ``irregular'' sectioning trees.  Now,
    when @node pointers are implicitly determined, the consistency of
    @menu and the sectioning tree is checked.  (If node pointers are
    explicitly specified in the document, the tree can still be irregular.)
  
  . The previous makeinfo always added blank lines between function
    definitions if they weren't already there.  Now blank lines are not
    added.
    
  . The previous makeinfo did not consider ends of lines from expansion
    of an @macro definition to end an @-command line-delimited argument
    (@chapter, @center, etc.).  This is no longer the case.