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: Fri, 05 Dec 2014 22:13:19 +0200 Message-ID: <83h9x93leo.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20141205123549.GA29331@thyrsus.com> <87mw72lyzs.fsf@earlgrey.lan> <20141205190925.GA5067@thyrsus.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1417810414 27739 80.91.229.3 (5 Dec 2014 20:13:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2014 20:13:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: cwebber@dustycloud.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: esr@thyrsus.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 05 21:13:27 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 1XwzFm-0005q4-Vj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 21:13:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52331 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XwzFm-00015C-HC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 15:13:26 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57848) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XwzFU-00013v-Jy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 15:13:13 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XwzFP-00082G-Ng for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 15:13:08 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout26.012.net.il ([80.179.55.182]:34188) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XwzFP-000816-F8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 15:13:03 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout26.012.net.il by mtaout26.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NG400200LB0FC00@mtaout26.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 22:11:54 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout26.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NG400GVBLFU7P80@mtaout26.012.net.il>; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 22:11:54 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <20141205190925.GA5067@thyrsus.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.182 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:179004 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2014 14:09:25 -0500 > From: "Eric S. Raymond" > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > Christopher Allan Webber : > > Here's where I'm a bit surprised... I'm not sure that new GNU projects > > should have to use Texinfo, but why not put efforts into improving > > Texinfo's HTML output? > > Because Texinfo is a barrier in itself, full of ceremony and heavyweight > markup. Nonsense. > The state of the art has moved well past it - modern formats like > asciidoc (or perhaps even org - others may be right about that) are > both lighter and more powerful. How about showing those advantages, instead of throwing unsubstantiated FAD?