At AdaCore, we have switched most of our product documentation the rest/sphinx format: http://sphinx-doc.org/ which provides most of the advantages of texinfo (text format, can generate output in multiple formats, supported by free software), as well as additional advantages, at least for us (more modern output, actively maintained, support more output formats, simpler syntax).
So we are investigating converting also the GNAT documentation (GNAT User's Guide and GNAT RM) to this format. I understand that GCC as whole likely wants to stick with texinfo for the time being, so I'm not really suggesting a switch here, but what about the following approach: - the GNAT doc source would be in rest format (.rst files) instead of texinfo (.texi files) - we would still provide .texi files, generated automatically by the sphinx toolset (via 'make texinfo') and committed in the repository (similarly to configure vs configure.in/aclocal.m4), so end users would not have any extra dependency, and generation of documentation would still be possible from the .texi files directly What do people think in principle about the above proposal? Would that be an acceptable move for the GCC project? Arno
