From: John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au>
To: Ludovic Court??s <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: texinfo: Make version 4.13a available
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 17:55:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140210165506.GB721@jocasta.intra> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bnyfvtc4.fsf@gnu.org>
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On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 05:13:47PM +0100, Ludovic Court??s wrote:
Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> skribis:
> This patch adds texinfo-4.13a back to Guix, as an alternative to
> texinfo-5.2.
>
> The motivation is that building Guile's manual using texinfo-4.13a takes
> about 6 seconds on my Yeeloong, compared with about 12 *minutes* using
> texinfo-5.2.
Ouch. My laptop is faster, but yeah, I sympathize. :-)
I wonder about the environmental footprint of the switch to Texinfo 5.
I think having 4.x in guix is also a good idea, since there are still packages in the wild
whose manuals don't build with 5.x
J'
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2014-02-10 14:41 [PATCH] gnu: texinfo: Make version 4.13a available Mark H Weaver
2014-02-10 16:13 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-02-10 16:55 ` John Darrington [this message]
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