From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: On being web-friendly and why info must die Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2014 12:03:40 -0500 Message-ID: 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> <5485FC59.5030700@cs.ucla.edu> <5486A4EC.4010603@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1418144696 9268 80.91.229.3 (9 Dec 2014 17:04:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2014 17:04:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: esr@thyrsus.com, Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 09 18:04:49 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 1XyODP-0006zQ-Ut for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2014 18:04:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41513 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XyODP-0001sZ-DK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2014 12:04:47 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34499) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XyOD0-0001r3-Cq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2014 12:04:30 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XyOCr-0001JO-LI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2014 12:04:22 -0500 Original-Received: from mercure.iro.umontreal.ca ([132.204.24.67]:54701) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XyOCi-0001FZ-M2; Tue, 09 Dec 2014 12:04:04 -0500 Original-Received: from hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.50]) by mercure.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34F8C85083; Tue, 9 Dec 2014 12:04:04 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from lechon.iro.umontreal.ca (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49F2F1E5B8C; Tue, 9 Dec 2014 12:03:40 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: by lechon.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 2E91AB40DF; Tue, 9 Dec 2014 12:03:40 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <5486A4EC.4010603@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Mon, 08 Dec 2014 23:29:48 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-DIRO-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-DIRO-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-DIRO-MailScanner-SpamCheck: n'est pas un polluriel, SpamAssassin (score=-2.81, requis 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -2.82, MC_POURMOI 0.01, MC_TSTLAST 0.00) X-DIRO-MailScanner-From: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 132.204.24.67 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:179573 Archived-At: > Yes, that sounds plausible. But I doubt whether the work will happen, as > separate compilation for Texinfo doesn't sound that easy, and the Texinfo > developers don't seem to have a lot of cycles to spare. We should at least ask for it. Myself, I'd be happy with a "low quality" support for separate compilation where some aspects of the result are not necessarily quite identical to what the "whole text compilation" would give. Stefan