Re: A Roadmap for TexInfo without Info

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Per Bothner <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 15:28:39 -0800
> Cc: Texinfo <address@hidden>
> 
> I would also add, as a needed, independent project:
> * Change the standalone info program to a wrapper around 'emacs -nw'.

I don't think it's a good idea.  Emacs is a relatively large package,
and likely to not be installed on some systems, like the current
mobile computers/phones.  the Emacs Info reader is for users who
already have Emacs and use it actively enough to not want to fire up a
separate reader.

The whole justification of the move to something based on HTML is to
allow people to use the existing browsers to read the GNU
documentation.  So if Someone™ indeed comes up with such a back-end to
makeinfo, the stand-alone reader will simply silently die.