From: "François Pinard" <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: XEmacs Beta Testers <xemacs-beta@xemacs.org>,
ding@gnus.org, Karl Berry <karl@cs.umb.edu>
Subject: Re: XEmacs info.el and PGnus info files
Date: 29 May 2000 11:26:36 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <oqg0r1idhv.fsf@titan.progiciels-bpi.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Didier Verna's message of "29 May 2000 16:44:58 +0200"
Didier Verna <didier@xemacs.org> writes:
> - our info.el assumes that all info files have a .info extention (modulo
> gzip compression and stuff).
Gnus is not the only package to avoid `.info' as an extension. Moreover,
DJGPP might use different extensions.
> - PGnus calls its info files gnus-[0-9]+ [...]
> Personaly, I think that our info.el tries to be too clever, but I also
> think that PGnus shouldn't mess around with makeinfo's output file name.
Nothing wrong, there. Gnus is not messing with output file names, as
`makeinfo' default is a proposal, not a standard. A lot of Info files
do not (or did not?) have `.info' extension anyway. Maybe that `.info'
as an extension became mandated? That would be new to me, but I'm not
following everything. Cc:ing to Karl, who might have an opinion on this.
--
François Pinard http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard
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2000-05-29 14:44 Didier Verna
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2000-05-30 14:04 Karl Berry
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