Re: A Roadmap for TexInfo without Info

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: address@hidden
> From: Per Bothner <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 00:25:08 -0800
> 
> > 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.
> 
> I find it hard to imagine anyone using the info program on any system
> where the resources needed to run Emacs would be much more than a
> rounding error, except maybe if they're using really ancient hardware.

I didn't say the hardware cannot run Emacs, I said Emacs is likely not
to be available.  By contrast, a Web browser is unlikely to be absent
on any modern platform, small or large.

> > 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.
> 
> No, the justification and my argument goes way beyond that.

Maybe in your argument, but then abandoning Info makes much less sense
to me.  Inventing yet another specialized format and coding yet
another specialized reader means repeating the Info experience over
again, i.e. we didn't learn anything from the current experience.

> Please read: http://per.bothner.com/blog/2016/texinfo-roadmap/

Which part?  I've read it several times, but my interpretation was
that you propose hinfo, which is HTML based.

> Note that I added today a new "Problems with info" justification section

That is unrelated to whatever is suggested as the replacement format.