Re: gnats/18: Distribute docs in HTML, DVI, PS and PDF formats

[Chad Walstrom]

Here are the increase in the distribution file size (before
compression) as of the documents in question:

        PDF: 887K
        PS: 1.16M
        DVI: 488K
        HTML: 952K

info files come in at a whopping 318K and are viewable by any text
editor as well as the info viewer.  It turns out to be relatively easy
to specify other document formats to distribute, but the question
remains, "How large should we allow the distribution file to be?"

I personally don't see any improvement in viewing HTML documents over
info docs, and the bloat from PDF, PS, and DVI files is probably
unnecessary.  I would simply stick with the *.info files.

Is there any opinion amongst our user-base regarding what
documentation to distribute in the tarball?  Keep in mind, you can
always run "make pdf" or "make html" to create the documentation.

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