>>>>> Reiner Steib wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 24 2008, Katsumi Yamaoka wrote:

>> BTW, with MAKEINFO=no the Gnus Info files are divided into 24
>> files (gnus, gnus-1, ..., gnus-23).  Those are too small, aren't
>> they?  The threshold is hard-coded in `Info-split' (informat.el).

> ,----[ <f1> f Info-split RET ]
>| Info-split is an interactive autoloaded Lisp function in `informat'.
>| (Info-split)
>|
>| Split an info file into an indirect file plus bounded-size subfiles.
>| Each subfile will be up to 50,000 characters plus one node. [...]
> `----

> I think the threshold should not be hard-coded and it's default should
> be like makeinfo's so that we don't need such workarounds:

>> A workaround I added to the Japanese edition of the Gnus Info is:
[...]
>>   (require 'informat)
>>   (let* ((fn (symbol-function 'Info-split))
>>        (fns (prin1-to-string fn)))
>>     (when (string-match "\\([\t\n ]+\\)50000\\([\t\n ]+\\)" fns)
>>       (condition-case nil
>>         (fset 'Info-split (read (replace-match "\\1200000\\2" nil nil fns)))
>>       (error
>>        (fset 'Info-split fn)))))

Thank you for following it up.  How about the attached patch?
While the threshold of makeinfo is 30000, I tried it with some
texinfo files and reduced it a bit for `Info-split'.  Now the
command ``./configure; make MAKEINFO=no info'' performed in the
Gnus trunk splits the Gnus Info into six files.

(Note that loaddefs.el, i.e. ldefs-boot.el, should be updated if
this patch is applied because of autoloading `Info-split-threshold'.)