On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 08:26, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: > [Eric I don't think you really meant to conceal this from Karl > and Patrice, so I've added the Cc: back. Please be careful not > to drop it.] > > >>> "Eric" == Eric Siegerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Eric> On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 12:19:05PM -0800, Bruce Korb wrote: > [...] > >> Yeah! That's the idea! Type in, ``make html'' and any html-making > >> gets triggered, whether it is texinfo based or not. :-) > > Eric> Or, indeed, whether part is texinfo-based *and* part not. Of > Eric> course, the target for making the texinfo-based subset of the > Eric> HTML might indeed be "texinfohtml", and correspondingly for > Eric> install and uninstall. But that should be purely a detail of > Eric> automake's implementation: > Eric> html: texinfohtml whatever_other_html_targets_make_sense > > Eric> It need not, and IMO should not, be mentioned in the coding > Eric> standards. > > This makes sense to me. > > `make html' is not a problem. However if `make install-html' > and `make uninstall-html' are introduced and must (as we all > expect) install more than just makeinfo-generated files, then > the GNU Coding Standards should also define a destination > directory for these other files. Something like $htmldir. Please don't.
Remember, html is just _one_ *output* format among other output format. If htmldir is added, we will soon have requests for rtf, dvi, pdf, xml, docbook, M$-doc etc. May-be a --XXXdocdir mechanism, optionally adding XXX=html,rtf etc. would be required. Ralf