Re: Version naming

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Rob Browning <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 20:08:15 -0500
> 
> One other thing that would be handy (if it's not already possible) is an
> easy way to generate and install info pages for multiple major releases
> (at least) at the same time.

That's not an Emacs problem.  This is a general problem with Texinfo:
it doesn't support such installation.  It's a long-standing missing
feature, so please take it up with the Texinfo developers, so that
perhaps in some not-so-distant future we might have a reliable
solution for it.

> In Debian, as a hack, we just store all the pages under
> .../share/info/emacs-N/, and then mangle the START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY to
> refer to emacs-N/foo instead of foo. i.e.
> 
>   * Emacs: (emacs-24/emacs).               The extensible self-documenting 
> text editor.
> 
> This works somewhat, but I seem to recall there were some issues with
> either the standalone reader or Emacs (though perhaps they've been
> fixed).

Yes, this kludge is well known, but it doesn't work very well, as I'm
sure you know.

Again, this is a Texinfo problem.  Once Texinfo comes up with a
solution that the stand-alone Info reader implements, I'm sure Emacs
will follow suit in no time.