Re: [bug #38795] texi2any makes CR in output when input is mixed CR-LF and LF files

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2013 19:02:39 +0200
> From: Vincent Belaïche <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden, address@hidden, 
>  address@hidden
> 
> Eli Zaretskii a écrit :
> >> Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2013 13:05:55 +0000
> >> From: Vincent Belaïche <address@hidden>
> >>
> >> There must not be any CR in the Info files, only LF.
> >>     
> >
> > ?? Why?
> >
> >
> >   
> Looping also through address@hidden for info.
> 
> 1) install-info is unable to handle them --- at least the version of 
> install-info which I have.
> 
> $ install-info --version
> => install-info (GNU texinfo) 4.11

On what OS is that?

> 2) So it seems that this is not a bug of install-info, see Texinfo 
> manual `(texinfo) Conventions' info node:
> 
>    * Separate paragraphs with one or more blank lines.  Currently
>      Texinfo only recognizes newline characters as end of line, not the
>      CRLF sequence used on some systems; so a "blank line" means exactly
>      two consecutive newlines.  Sometimes blank lines are useful or
>      convenient in other cases as well; you can use the '@noindent' to
>      inhibit paragraph indentation if required (*note @noindent::).

This is simply misleading, and might be true only on Posix systems.
It's definitely false on MS-Windows, where CRLF end-of-line format
_must_ be supported, or else the port which doesn't is simply broken,
because 'makeinfo' produces CRLF EOLs when it runs on MS-Windows.

> My personal opinion is the following one:
> * That anti-CRLF Texinfo way is completely non-sensical: Texinfo files 
> should be handled as text files, because any version control system will 
> be better at comparing version, and at compressing them together. So I 
> am in opinion that BBDB is not to blame (well they still could do 
> something for people on MSWindows and with older version of Texinfo do 
> not have any problems).
> * So the Texinfo system should be completely CRLF-proof, be it with 
> makeinfo converting CRLF to LF, or with install-info handling properly 
> CRLF in detecting dir-category.
> * The argument that CRLF is labelled as not supported in the doc is a 
> bit MSWindows-unfriendly (why?), this also means that all the people 
> writing documentation in Texinfo will have more problems in making this 
> doc available to Windows-victims.

I cannot agree more.  That is why I was surprised to read your
requirement that no CRs be present.