From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: makeinfo 4.7 Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 18:26:39 +0200 Message-ID: <85lkpaywjk.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <200608261711.k7QHBUS15318@f7.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1156696073 11901 80.91.229.2 (27 Aug 2006 16:27:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 16:27:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: karl@freefriends.org, storm@cua.dk, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 27 18:27:50 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GHNTl-0005ix-H3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 27 Aug 2006 18:27:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GHNTl-00076G-0D for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 27 Aug 2006 12:27:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GHNTX-00075T-3R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Aug 2006 12:27:07 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GHNTV-00073n-Mv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Aug 2006 12:27:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GHNTV-00073f-H6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Aug 2006 12:27:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GHNcG-0000Yc-Qu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Aug 2006 12:36:08 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1GHNTN-0004TB-SM; Sun, 27 Aug 2006 12:26:58 -0400 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 325321C4D3A4; Sun, 27 Aug 2006 18:26:39 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun, 27 Aug 2006 12:16:31 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:58945 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: Richard Stallman >> Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 10:34:32 -0400 >> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, storm@cua.dk >> >> When was Texinfo 4.7 released? >> >> April 2004. >> >> That is over 2 years. So it is ok for Emacs to need it. > > For only 3 directives that are very easy to change back to > back-compatible ones, I think such a requirement would be annoyingly > unjustified. Who would be annoyed by it? IIRC, the distribution tarballs come with premade info files, anyway. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum