GNU Texinfo

[Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]

In a few minutes of searching the online repo, then downloading and
building, I wasn't able to find this putative new makeinfo in the
texinfo 5 source?


On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 7:45 AM, Nicholas Clark <nick at ccl4.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 02:27:19PM +0000, Gareth Harper wrote:
>> I thought it was quite interesting that it's been rewritten in perl
>> (and they're advertising it).
>>
>> http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/02/17/2126208/gnu-texinfo-50-released
>>
>> Although the normal unreadable perl comments surface seconds into the
>> discussion.
>
> What? Some people hate Perl more than they hate info pages? I would never
> have believed it :-)
>
> Two interesting comments I spotted:
>
>     What I find interesting about this Perl rewrite is that Guile,
>     ostensibly the official scripting language of GNU, has had excellent
>     structured texinfo support for years now. It uses stexi which has the
>     same structure as sxml, so you gain access to all of the really great
>     Scheme XML processing tools, including SXSLT which is basically ideal
>     for spitting out arbitrary formats.
>
> http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3469697&cid=42932335
>
> and
>
>     Why on earth would they have picked perl? Perl isn't really a native gnu
>     project. At least gcc is.
>
> http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3469697&cid=42931395
>
>
> (I can guess at answers for both. But the questions were two that I'd not
> thought of first.)
>
> Nicholas Clark