On Sat, Dec 10, 2022 at 09:38:17AM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > From: Gavin Smith <[email protected]> > > Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2022 00:22:37 +0000 > > Cc: [email protected] > > > > The script was under contrib/fix-info-dir. The whole contrib/ directory > > was excluded from the tar ball. > > > > Which distributions use the script and when/how is it run? > > > > The script appears to have hardly any attention paid to it since > > it was written (the copyright year in the version message is still > > printed as 1998!). > > > > I think it's unlikely that we could immediately add the functionality > > to the info binary and the more immediate change would be distribute > > the script. > > AFAIU, the script's effect is equivalent to deleting the existing DIR > file and then running install-info on all the files in that directory > to recreate DIR. Am I missing something?
Yes, so putting this functionality inside the info program would require it to open and process every single Info file on its path, which could be slow.
