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On 12/09/2014 02:00 PM, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> Texinfo 4 is still available, isn't it?  I can't recall whether I
> installed it myself or it was just there, but I found Texinfo 5
> unbearable and switched.

And that's a problem.  The fact that so many core Emacs contributors 
stick with Texinfo 4 is not only a technical problem (Texinfo 4 doesn't 
check syntax typos as well, it is still quoting 1970s-style, etc.), it's 
a marketing problem as we're giving potential contributors the 
impression that our development process has ossified.