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: Tue, 09 Dec 2014 05:43:17 +0200 Message-ID: <831to9xzca.fsf@gnu.org> 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> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1418096632 18732 80.91.229.3 (9 Dec 2014 03:43:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2014 03:43:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: chad Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 09 04:43:45 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 1XyBiD-0001WT-GF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2014 04:43:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37623 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XyBiC-0006cG-V1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2014 22:43:44 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46166) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XyBi2-0006aG-OK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2014 22:43:42 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XyBhv-0001jY-52 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2014 22:43:34 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:47161) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XyBhu-0001jF-Tk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2014 22:43:27 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NGA00G00Q6JOJ00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2014 05:43:25 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NGA00G6XQCCIM80@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Tue, 09 Dec 2014 05:43:25 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.175 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:179523 Archived-At: > From: chad > Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2014 15:39:21 -0800 > > Haven't the Texinfo maintainers already repeatedly said "yes, we > know the new version is very slow. We can't find anyone to do the > necessary work otherwise.", thus forcing the choice between speed > and unicode support? It wasn't about Unicode support (Texinfo 4.x did it almost as well, the difference being in the language, not in the translator). The issue at hand was the continued development of makeinfo per se. Meanwhile, isn't there a way to compile Perl programs into C? Maybe this will make the result acceptable.