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Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: texinfo: Make version 4.13a available
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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.

> From ea307b2af2d995b4f37c27e52f5d259131d27fe8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
> Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 02:04:38 -0500
> Subject: [PATCH] gnu: texinfo: Make version 4.13a available.
>
> * gnu/packages/texinfo.scm (texinfo-4): New variable.

OK to commit.

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.