From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: On being web-friendly and why info must die Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2014 05:51:18 +0200 Message-ID: <83388qztmx.fsf@gnu.org> 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> <83k325195l.fsf@gnu.org> <5482D94B.2070102@cs.ucla.edu> <5484FF31.5010808@cs.ucla.edu> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1418010711 17440 80.91.229.3 (8 Dec 2014 03:51:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2014 03:51:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: esr@thyrsus.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 08 04:51:43 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 1XxpMN-0005c0-6z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2014 04:51:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59984 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XxpMM-0004tb-Su for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Dec 2014 22:51:42 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36257) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XxpMF-0004tV-V5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Dec 2014 22:51:40 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XxpMB-0006tZ-1I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Dec 2014 22:51:35 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout27.012.net.il ([80.179.55.183]:45320) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XxpMA-0006tV-PD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Dec 2014 22:51:30 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout27.012.net.il by mtaout27.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NG800O00VKLL200@mtaout27.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2014 05:47:16 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout27.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NG800M3XVUR2A30@mtaout27.012.net.il>; Mon, 08 Dec 2014 05:47:15 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <5484FF31.5010808@cs.ucla.edu> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.183 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:179359 Archived-At: > Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2014 17:30:25 -0800 > From: Paul Eggert > CC: Eli Zaretskii , esr@thyrsus.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > right now we're stuck between the rock of Texinfo 4 and the hard place of > Texinfo 5, and this is an argument for switching to some other format. You should consider the "who will write the documentation" issue as part of the decision whether to switch.