Re: Brittleness with texinfo and version numbering

[John W. Eaton]

On 17-Oct-2009, Rik wrote:

| John W. Eaton wrote:
| > On 13-Oct-2009, Rik wrote:
| >
| > | I agree it's a problem with texinfo, but I think it will take a longer
| > | to fix it this way than simply avoiding the problem.
| >
| > The problem only shows up if you do a "make dist" on an Octave version
| > from the hg archive, which isn't something that I expect to happen
| > often.  If I make a snapshot, then I use a "normal" version number.
| >
| >   
| This is fine.  If it is a low frequency event then it is easier to avoid
| it then to fix it.   That was the point I was trying to convey regarding
| texinfo as well.

I sent a bug report about this problem to address@hidden

jwe