From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eric S. Raymond" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: On being web-friendly and why info must die Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2014 18:15:20 -0500 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20141205231520.GA9889@thyrsus.com> References: <20141205123549.GA29331@thyrsus.com> <2815659.zRQ0WWWeRr@descartes> <20141205175810.GD3120@thyrsus.com> <87lhmlncb1.fsf@earlgrey.lan> <20141205193643.GB5067@thyrsus.com> <87tx19rd1b.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <20141205215138.GF7784@thyrsus.com> <54823617.4000406@cs.ucla.edu> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1417821342 16829 80.91.229.3 (5 Dec 2014 23:15:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2014 23:15:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 06 00:15:38 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Xx263-0007CC-SE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2014 00:15:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52852 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xx263-0004Mo-E2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 18:15:35 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47565) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xx25u-0004Ip-74 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 18:15:30 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xx25p-00071G-5i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 18:15:26 -0500 Original-Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:59041 helo=snark.thyrsus.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xx25p-00071C-2H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 18:15:21 -0500 Original-Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id DADAC382B99; Fri, 5 Dec 2014 18:15:20 -0500 (EST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <54823617.4000406@cs.ucla.edu> X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 71.162.243.5 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:179067 Archived-At: Paul Eggert : > Even though Texinfo made a lot of sense for many years and we should > not switch lightly, it may now be time to think of switching. It'd > be a win if we could use a format with a decently-fast support. I believe all the formats even remotely in contention have fast enough toolchains for this not to be a barrier to entry. -- Eric S. Raymond