From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: makeinfo swallows page breaks Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 21:31:08 +0100 Message-ID: <87r4j8a41f.fsf@gnu.org> References: <8738vpirz4.fsf@gnu.org> <87boacboeg.fsf@gnu.org> <1363892280.87140.YahooMailNeo@web120406.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> 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 1363897890 15114 80.91.229.3 (21 Mar 2013 20:31:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 20:31:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "guile-devel@gnu.org" To: Mike Gran Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 21 21:31:56 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-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 1UIm9T-0005Ow-1M for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Mar 2013 21:31:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49351 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UIm95-0006cs-Nw for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Mar 2013 16:31:31 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:42753) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UIm8y-0006bi-LN for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Mar 2013 16:31:29 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UIm8t-0004Z0-TC for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Mar 2013 16:31:24 -0400 Original-Received: from [2a01:e0b:1:123:ca0a:a9ff:fe03:271e] (port=48463 helo=xanadu.aquilenet.fr) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UIm8t-0004X7-Md for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Mar 2013 16:31:19 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by xanadu.aquilenet.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id E859ECE40; Thu, 21 Mar 2013 21:31:09 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from xanadu.aquilenet.fr ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (xanadu.aquilenet.fr [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id uDDTeYr6zKtP; Thu, 21 Mar 2013 21:31:09 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from pluto (reverse-83.fdn.fr [80.67.176.83]) by xanadu.aquilenet.fr (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 64C5ACE3B; Thu, 21 Mar 2013 21:31:09 +0100 (CET) X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 1 Germinal an 221 de la =?utf-8?Q?R=C3=A9volution?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0xEA52ECF4 X-PGP-Key: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 83C4 F8E5 10A3 3B4C 5BEA D15D 77DD 95E2 EA52 ECF4 X-OS: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu In-Reply-To: <1363892280.87140.YahooMailNeo@web120406.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> (Mike Gran's message of "Thu, 21 Mar 2013 11:58:00 -0700 (PDT)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.130005 (Ma Gnus v0.5) Emacs/24.2 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 2a01:e0b:1:123:ca0a:a9ff:fe03:271e X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:15962 Archived-At: Mike Gran skribis: >> Attached is a patch to use Guile=E2=80=99s Texinfo support [0] to build = said >> file.=C2=A0 Guile=E2=80=99s Texinfo parser is incomplete but sufficient = to handle >> those docstrings. > >> OK to commit? > > If Guile depends on Guile for multiple stages the build, it becomes > difficult to recover from a problem when the build is failing. Well, that=E2=80=99s nothing compared to its bootstrapping procedure. :-) > So maybe this commit will lead to better, more methodical hacking; maybe > it will make fixing a broken Guile more annoying. It will force us to maintain the Texinfo modules at a reasonable level, which I think it=E2=80=99s good. Hopefully, if something breaks, it will b= reak deterministically. Conversely, here people with Texinfo 5.x get no docstrings (and thus failing tests), people with an older Texinfo don=E2=80=99t have any problem= s, and people without Texinfo have no problem but their docstrings include unprocessed markup. Overall, I really think it=E2=80=99s an improvement. Ludo=E2=80=99.