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From: Ricardo Marek <ricky@ornet.co.il>
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Another solution could be to produce a separated tar file for the ones
that want the info files.

>>>>> Steven L Baur writes:

 Steven: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:
 :: Steve, you said that omitting info files would save 2.3M in the
 :: tarball.  Also, we conceded that creating info files using texinfo
 :: update was too slow, and we can't know if people have makeinfo.

 :: However: how about distributing makeinfo source ourselves?

 Steven: Makeinfo was distributed as part of XEmacs through XEmacs 19.14, and
 Steven: dropped by 19.15-beta1.  The only problem I see with distributing it
 Steven: separately and requiring the enduser to build the info files is that
 Steven: the internals manual causes a coredump in the stock makeinfo from
 Steven: texinfo-3.9.

 :: It would take a very small amount of space, compared to info files.
 :: The gcc developers have expressed desire to do this, too.

 Steven: We've probably got one more tarball before 20.2-final1.  I'm willing
 Steven: to not include the info files in tomorrow's beta to see how it goes.
 Steven: Given the probable size of the patch involved (very small), it isn't
 Steven: going to be much of a test.
 Steven: -- 
 Steven: steve@miranova.com baur
 Steven: Unsolicited commercial e-mail will be billed at $250/message.



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