Re: [PATCH 5/6] gnu: mit-scheme: Generate and install documentation.

[Federico Beffa <beffa@ieee.org>]

On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 12:14 AM, Mathieu Lirzin <mthl@gnu.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Federico Beffa <beffa@ieee.org> writes:
>
>> HTML is not better than Info. Here we only need to keep it for
>> 'emacs-mit-scheme-doc' to work. This is functionality for mit-scheme
>> whereby Emacs looks up the documentation for the identifier at point.
>>
>> For PDFs, it depends on the type and quality of the manual. If it is
>> short and/or poor, then nobody will spend hours reading it. But if the
>> manual is good and long, then there is a chance that people will spend
>> a lot of time reading it and it would be nice to have a good quality
>> environment to read it (again, I'm talking about font graphics
>> rendering).
>>
>> This is analogous to making public buildings suitable for people with
>> wheel-chairs, ... may people don't care, until they are affected :-(
>
> Sorry I don't understand your analogy.  IIUC the discussion is about
> what should be installed with the default output.  Putting the PDF
> version of the manual in the 'doc' output will not prevent anyone to use
> it.  Did I miss something?

Well, the discussion is about this sentence:

   I just realized that its documentation is in Texinfo format.  What about
   simply installing the Info format like we do for other GNU packages, and
   not the PDF/PS/DVI version?

I can't find: why don't we put the PDF/PS/DVI in a different output.
If I misunderstood then my bad. But being less cryptic and more
explicit would prevent that.

Regards,
Fede