> Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2015 19:51:23 +0100 > From: Gavin Smith <gavinsmith0...@gmail.com> > Cc: Rob Browning <r...@defaultvalue.org>, 793...@bugs.debian.org, > Texinfo <bug-texi...@gnu.org> > > On 4 August 2015 at 16:39, Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> wrote: > >> You could easily install and access multiple versions of manuals > >> side-by-side, by configuring with --program-suffix. Taking the example > >> of Texinfo, you could access different versions of the Texinfo manual > >> with "info texinfo-5.0", "info texinfo-4.13", etc. > > > > Users can already have that, by placing each version in its own > > directory and adding that directory to INFOPATH. How is this better > > or even significantly different? > > Convenience. People won't want to write an INFOPATH in their .bashrc > or wherever which is dozens of entries long.
How's that different from making PATH dozens of entries long, something you (implicitly) suggested elsewhere in this thread? > Also it would save editing dir files by hand to add versioned > entries. I don't see why that would be needed. If they really want to say "info -f foo-1.2.3" instead of "info -f /usr/share/info/foo-1.2.3", they can make a symlink in a directory under their HOME and place that directory on INFOPATH. > Speaking for myself, I know I would certainly install multiple > versions of the Texinfo manuals, and multiple versions of some other > manuals as well, if it was convenient to do so. I have dozens of different versions of several manuals on my system, but never needed anything beyond "info -f /path/to/info/file". > > I don't think we should promote a semi-broken solution to this > > problem. I think we should look for a complete solution. > > Can you elaborate on what would constitute a complete solution? A solution that supports inter-manual links, both in Info and in HTML formats. To do this on a per-user basis, we would need some environment variable or/and user init file that would tell the Info reader what version of which manual it should look for, so that it could automagically substitute a reference to a "foo" manual with "foo-1.2.3". -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
