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 22:17:24 +0200 Message-ID: <83fvct3l7v.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20141205123549.GA29331@thyrsus.com> <83r3we2jb9.fsf@gnu.org> <708906124.QMSzxCvBCm@descartes> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1417810660 31688 80.91.229.3 (5 Dec 2014 20:17:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2014 20:17:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?utf-8?Q?R=C3=BCdiger?= Sonderfeld Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 05 21:17:32 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 1XwzJk-0007sc-8s for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 21:17:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52346 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XwzJj-0001mo-LL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 15:17:31 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58742) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XwzJR-0001mi-Lx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 15:17:18 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XwzJM-0001Gx-Ao for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 15:17:13 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout28.012.net.il ([80.179.55.184]:51220) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XwzJM-0001Gc-1p; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 15:17:08 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout28.012.net.il by mtaout28.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NG400K00KM7X700@mtaout28.012.net.il>; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 22:14:42 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout28.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NG400JYQLKIQ530@mtaout28.012.net.il>; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 22:14:42 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <708906124.QMSzxCvBCm@descartes> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.184 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:179005 Archived-At: > From: R=C3=BCdiger Sonderfeld > Cc: Glenn Morris , Eli Zaretskii > Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2014 20:18:21 +0100 >=20 > That being said, I do think we should consider alternatives to usin= g the Info=20 > format. Now that we have eww/shr, it might make sense to use HTML = as well. =20 > Although we need a way to support the index in it. That would be fine by me, at least. The back-end can certainly be replaced, provided that the replacement allows as efficient reading and consulting the documentation as the Info format and its Emacs viewer. The issue here is mainly about the Texinfo source. It doesn't make sense to switch to another language, exactly as it doesn't make sense to switch a C-based project to C++ or Java, when all the main developers don't work and aren't proficient in these languages. It's a death blow to the project.