> From: Gavin Smith <[email protected]> > Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2024 20:16:54 +0000 > Cc: [email protected], [email protected], > [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], > [email protected] > > > > If desired, users could have a directory containing solely Info manuals > > > in a certain language along with a dir file containing their dir entries. > > > > That would mean INFOPATH will have to be amended to include such > > directories. It also means that INFOPATH will eventually include a > > lot of directories, and search for Info manuals might become > > significantly slower. I'm not sure this is a scalable arrangement. > > There's a limit to how many languages one person can read, so they won't > need dozens of such directories.
I was thinking about automatic computation of Info-directory-list, the way we have in Emacs now. That might need to account for directories that _might_ exist, but aren't necessarily there on every system. The potential list of language-specific subdirectories _is_ long. Having all of the manuals in a single directory with language-specific suffixes completely avoids these problems, and will work with the current standard Info directory trees without any changes.
