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Re: html texinfo install?
- From: Russ Allbery <rra at stanford dot edu>
- To: karl at freefriends dot org (Karl Berry)
- Cc: dumas at centre-cired dot fr, bug-autoconf at gnu dot org, automake at gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 11:50:59 -0800
- Subject: Re: html texinfo install?
- Organization: The Eyrie
- References: <200402171521.i1HFLKD23868@f7.net>
Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> writes:
> In order to make this most useful for people to browse manuals locally
> (with file://localhost), it seems it might finally be time to propose a
> standard directory for HTML output from Texinfo manuals.
> The obvious directory would be $(datadir)/html by analogy with
> $(datadir)/info, but it seems a bit arrogant to use such a generic name
> for something which only relates to Texinfo manuals. Maybe texinfo/html
> -- then we could have texinfo/xml/ and texinfo/docbook/ and ..., if we
> liked. Thus:
> texinfodata = $(datadir)/texinfo
> texinfohtml = $(texinfodata)/html
Doesn't pretty much every distribution use /usr/share/doc for this and
other package documentation at this point? This would be a pretty huge
change for distributions, particularly since many of them have tools to
index /usr/share/doc, web servers that serve it out to localhost, etc.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>