Re: Testing lots of Texinfo files

[Gavin Smith]

On Sun, Sep 20, 2020 at 1:54 PM Gavin Smith <gavinsmith0123@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Does anybody know of a way to test lots of Texinfo files, e.g.
> everything linked from https://www.gnu.org/manual/? What I'd like to do
> is test all of these files with the Texinfo XS parser enabled and also
> with it disabled, and see what if any differences there are.

I went through all of the pages on that page and manually downloaded
what I could. I have about 200 manuals that I've tested. It's an ad
hoc collection and not all of them include all the necessary files, so
running with --force and --no-validate is necessary. It's been
worthwhile, though, and brought up some important bugs. I've been
through them finding differences for Info output (with a script), and
have moved on to HTML output now. Most of the manuals did not
encounter issues, which is encouraging.

There are many manuals that I couldn't get easily as there wasn't a
link to download the Texinfo sources on the website (where there was,
this was always because the web manuals were generated with the
gendocs script). It would be a never-ending project to try to get
everything and the dependencies for all the manuals, but if there are
other manuals that are important to check that aren't listed below,
you could let me know if you know how to get hold of them.

The total corpus that I've collected so far is 254 MB, so too big to
share in an email. If anybody is interested in accessing the corpus,
though, let me know and we can discuss how we could share the files.

8sync
accounting
acm
alive
anubis
aris
artanis
auctex
autoconf
autogen
automake
bash
bc
bison
bpel2owfn
cflow
c-graph
combine
complexity
coreutils
cpio
datamash
dc
dico
diffutils
direvent
eintr
emacs-manual
find
fog
fontopia
gama
gawk
gawkinet
gdbm
gettext
g-golf
gnats
gnuastro
gnubg
gnubik
gnuchess
gnudos
gnuit
gnulib
gnun
gnu-pw-mgr
gperf
grep
groff
grub
grub-dev
gsasl
gsrc
gss
gst
gst-base
gst-libs
guile
guile-cv
guile-gnome-atk
guile-gnome-clutter
guile-gnome-clutter-glx
guile-gnome-corba
guile-gnome-gconf
guile-gnome-gdk
guile-gnome-glib
guile-gnome-gnome-vfs
guile-gnome-gobject
guile-gnome-gtk
guile-gnome-libglade
guile-gnome-libgnome
guile-gnome-libgnomecanvas
guile-gnome-libgnomeui
guile-gnome-pango
guile-gnome-pangocairo
guile-ncurses
guile-opengl
guile-rpc
guile-sdl
gv
gwl
gzip
hello
hurd
idutils
indent
inetutils
Libdbh
libextractor
libidn
libmicrohttpd
LibreDWG
librejs
libtool
libunistring
lightning
liquidwar6
m4
mailutils
maintain
make
mcron
mdk
mes
mino
misc
mpria
mtools
multiboot
muse
orgadoc
parted
plotutils
preview-latex
prime
proxyknife
pspp
pyconfigure
radius
rcs
reftex
remotecontrol
rottlog
rush
screen
sed
serveez
sharutils
shepherd
sqltutor
standards
stow
tar
termcap
teseq
tput
txinfsnp
units
vc-dwim
wdiff
websocket4j
web-trans
wget
xboard

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misc/auth.texi
misc/autotype.texi
misc/bovine.texi
misc/calc.texi
misc/cc-mode.texi
misc/cl.texi
misc/dbus.texi
misc/dired-x.texi
misc/ebrowse.texi
misc/ede.texi
misc/ediff.texi
misc/edt.texi
misc/efaq.texi
misc/efaq-w32.texi
misc/eieio.texi
misc/emacs-gnutls.texi
misc/emacs-mime.texi
misc/epa.texi
misc/erc.texi
misc/ert.texi
misc/eshell.texi
misc/eudc.texi
misc/eww.texi
misc/flymake.texi
misc/forms.texi
misc/gnus-coding.texi
misc/gnus-faq.texi
misc/gnus.texi
misc/htmlfontify.texi
misc/idlwave.texi
misc/ido.texi
misc/info.texi
misc/mairix-el.texi
misc/message.texi
misc/mh-e.texi
misc/newsticker.texi
misc/nxml-mode.texi
misc/octave-mode.texi
misc/org.texi
misc/pcl-cvs.texi
misc/pgg.texi
misc/rcirc.texi
misc/reftex.texi
misc/remember.texi
misc/sasl.texi
misc/sc.texi
misc/semantic.texi
misc/sem-user.texi
misc/ses.texi
misc/sieve.texi
misc/smtpmail.texi
misc/speedbar.texi
misc/srecode.texi
misc/todo-mode.texi
misc/tramp.texi
misc/trampver.texi
misc/url.texi
misc/vhdl-mode.texi
misc/viper.texi
misc/vip.texi
misc/widget.texi
misc/wisent.texi
misc/woman.texi