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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com>
> Cc: theophilusx@gmail.com,  rms@gnu.org,  monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,
>   acm@muc.de,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2022 18:04:56 +0800
> 
> 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.

It is an expression of frustration I feel each time the build needs to
rebuild the Org manual.  I wrote it to contrast that frustration with
what I perceived as satisfaction with this solution expressed in your
description of the history of this.

I really wonder how come no one on the Org list paid any attention to
the 10-fold to 40-fold slowdown in the time it takes to build the
manual, as result of that change.  But that's water under the bridge.

> 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 don't see any chance I will convince Org developers to go back to
Texinfo at this point.

> 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.

Thanks, I hope to see this soon in the Emacs repository.

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

If profiling can help, wouldn't it be simpler to invoke the same
commands from an interactive Emacs session, then show the profile?