From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: makeinfo 4.7 Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 09:11:49 +0100 Message-ID: <20060826081149.GA1286@muc.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1156583801 19618 80.91.229.2 (26 Aug 2006 09:16:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 09:16:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, "Kim F. Storm" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 26 11:16:38 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 1GGuHO-0001l5-7B for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Aug 2006 11:16:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GGuHN-0008Bh-Mh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Aug 2006 05:16:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GGuHB-0008BM-Cg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Aug 2006 05:16:25 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GGuH9-000895-EM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Aug 2006 05:16:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GGuH9-00088t-7X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Aug 2006 05:16:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [193.149.48.1] (helo=mail.muc.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1GGuPc-0000Br-6j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Aug 2006 05:25:08 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 76735 invoked from network); 26 Aug 2006 09:16:17 -0000 Original-Received: from acm.muc.de (HELO localhost.localdomain) (Debian-exim@193.149.49.134) by mail.muc.de with SMTP; 26 Aug 2006 09:16:17 -0000 Original-Received: from acm by localhost.localdomain with local (Exim 4.50) id 1GGtGf-0000Ol-Uy; Sat, 26 Aug 2006 09:11:49 +0100 Original-To: Eli Zaretskii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i 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:58897 Archived-At: Morning, Eli! On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 07:03:02PM -0400, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) > > Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 23:54:36 +0200 > > According to the README file, makeinfo 4.2 or later is needed: > > `man' holds the source code for the Emacs Manual. If you modify the > > manual sources, you will need the `makeinfo' program to produce > > an updated manual. `makeinfo' is part of the GNU Texinfo > > package; you need version 4.2 or later of Texinfo. > > But rcirc.texi uses indicateurl which was added in 4.7 > Why does rcirc.texi need @indicateurl? Can't it do without it? > I don't think we should gratuitously raise the minimal version of > support tool required to rebuild Emacs, even though Texinfo 4.7 was > released quite some time ago. cc-mode.texi uses @headitem, which was also first introduced in Texinfo 4.7. How many other manuals also use 4.[78] features? I suggest we just mandate 4.7 (or even 4.8), and be done. -- Alan.