Re: Org mode and Emacs (was: Convert README.org to plain text README while installing package)

[Ihor Radchenko]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> So, now we have our manual written in Org mode and we never had reasons
>> to come back to texi.
>
> And I get to wait for 2 minutes for the build to finish each time
> org.org is touched.  Right.

This is not very polite. The change did not aim to make your life
harder.

You are free to open discussion in Org ML about turning back to texi
format, but it will, for example, make things harder for me and other
people who are not familiar with texinfo format. I am not sure if build
time justifies extra maintenance burden.

I just pushed several improvements to ox.el. They reduce manual
generation time 2x on my system (using main branch). Feel free to try it
on your side. AFAIU, the effect should be more noticeable on slower
systems.

It may also help if you try to profile org-make-manuals from
mk/org-fixup.el and share the results.

Best,
Ihor