Eric Siegerman wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 05:02:45PM -0500, Karl Berry wrote: > > If, as in Bruce's proposal, they explicitly say "I want HTML", when > > there's no HTML in the distribution, that's one thing. Making it happen > > when they say "configure && make install", quite another. > > BTW, this is another case like configure.ac and configure, where > CVS scrambles the timestamps since foo.info sorts lexically > before foo.texi. I've found myself more than once having to
That's what the contrib/gcc_update script does: handles the shortcomings of CVS. Package distributors cannot distribute a package with out of date stamps and folks that draw generated sources from CVS have to understand that CVS has some limitations. Nothing new. Ralph wrote: > Bruce Korb writes: > > Karl Berry wrote: > > > > > 2. Please make available enable/disable macros for each output type: > > > info, html, xml, ps, ... > > > > > > I agree we could support all the formats (currently: info html xml > > > docbook ps pdf plaintext) uniformly, > > > > Good. > > I would prefer a single --enable-texinfo-formats=[all,info,html,...] > instead of dozens of individual options. Me, too. :-) Cheers - Bruce