From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.texinfo.general,gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: @dircategory (Re: Translating Emacs manuals is of strategic importance) Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2024 22:41:11 +0200 Message-ID: <83frzary8o.fsf@gnu.org> References: <8734vda9kz.fsf@yahoo.com> <5EC9A02F-DB34-48B6-BD2D-CB9E89A385D0@traductaire-libre.org> <83r0iwuek9.fsf@gnu.org> <837cknvkrx.fsf@gnu.org> <83jzoms1sx.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="9639"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: jean.christophe.helary@traductaire-libre.org, stefankangas@gmail.com, vincent.b.1@hotmail.fr, emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, help-texinfo@gnu.org To: Gavin Smith Original-X-From: help-texinfo-bounces+gnu-help-texinfo2=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 06 21:41:44 2024 Return-path: Envelope-to: gnu-help-texinfo2@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1rMDUF-0002DA-K2 for gnu-help-texinfo2@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 06 Jan 2024 21:41:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rMDTz-0001tC-PI; Sat, 06 Jan 2024 15:41:27 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rMDTx-0001sT-Lp; Sat, 06 Jan 2024 15:41:25 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rMDTx-0003Ym-Bb; Sat, 06 Jan 2024 15:41:25 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=TqjQgTvkTtbYzWX8N71e4DyjlqhcpliR4Rw4Q/HkSGY=; b=SzybdOd08PW5 TdT9UJ2B1Q/nmoSaPDh8e11Fsr01NZh/TkgClOes3JjzaCQSAPj4xArMcbTPrsQ4pXxaocU700ymQ YAeNIHZ9UyzFrwRcG0QhvzYGlnfQpYt4SjJvo8AxoPLfnkNFVLTzQ6+sDQP7W8aX9t8oJfwExZeVh c+zNfP4tyxQfzZfwfbJX5ShfsEpHoJg41IOn+EzJOQj/AlgiSo1LGui8nz5WC8tenR8lPsJJJokLI J3cO/3ZwiftilLG9DX2f/zqJFaoTmJRweC13Elrk4p/y4jjsS0JHN2wPjA7WuUuRl1+hvn4spUiiD MjKuM+Ko/ofd6Gyp+ihqoA==; In-Reply-To: (message from Gavin Smith on Sat, 6 Jan 2024 20:16:54 +0000) X-BeenThere: help-texinfo@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the Texinfo documentation system List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-texinfo-bounces+gnu-help-texinfo2=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-texinfo-bounces+gnu-help-texinfo2=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.comp.tex.texinfo.general:3392 gmane.emacs.devel:314655 Archived-At: > From: Gavin Smith > Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2024 20:16:54 +0000 > Cc: jean.christophe.helary@traductaire-libre.org, stefankangas@gmail.com, > vincent.b.1@hotmail.fr, emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, > help-texinfo@gnu.org > > > > 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.