Re: Bug#39823: tetex-bin: Texinfo tools should have their own package =(
Christoph Martin wrote:
> > Versions of programs in question are, I believe, texinfo 3.12i
> > and teTeX 0.9.990601. Both of those may be upgraded if there
> > is need, of course.
>
> As for teTeX, current is 1.0x.
> I will package it soon.
> The version of texinfo in teTeX is 3.12 with some changes from Thomas
> Esser:
> * removed the stand-alone info reader
> * add support for the supplied zlib library (so it does not
> need to exist on the system before installing teTeX) for
> install-info.
>
> So it's basically the same. I could configure teTeX
> --without-texinfo for the next release.
I agree. You should do that.
Changwoo Ryu wrote:
>AFAIK, there's nothing different now (between tetex 0.9.99* and
>texinfo 3.12. 3.12i has more features like HTML output by makeinfo).
>But I prefer texinfo source. tetex's texinfo stuffs easily get out of
>date.
Then current texinfo is more improved than teTeX one. I think we
should use that one, then. I'll start creating the texinfo package,
which will include makeinfo, texindex, texi2dvi and install-info (?).
I guess I shouldn't have crossposted to texinfo list, after all :)
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