Re: [Texi2html-bug] a new release and future plans

[Derek Price]

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Hey Patrice,

Sorry, I just caught up on this list and, thus, your release requests
after Karl Berry wrote me directly about copyright assignments.  If
texi2html is still ready for a release, I can roll it this week (and
release on Monday by 3rd, if not earlier).  If it isn't ready and you
can tag the tree at a point where you thought it was ready, I can
release that too.

In the future, if I don't seem to be responding to mail to this list, it
is okay to mail me directly with release requests.

Thanks,

Derek


Patrice Dumas wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I think that it is time for a new release. There is nothing urgent in
> the TODO list, in my opinion (though it has inflated quite a bit...),
> I already asked for a new release some time ago for the support of 
> new texinfo constructs and there are also new backends and a lot of
> changes, including api breakages, but also better handling of texinfo 
> constructs and better compatibility with makeinfo. Also John asked for a
> release to match the coming lilypond release and it looks like Reinhold 
> has no report anymore...
> 
> The next major thing to do before being able to replace makeinfo is to handle
> info format. For that
> 1 it should be possible to use only node as elements
> 2 it should be possible to determine the out file during the last pass, 
>   the output pass since the file length depend on the length of the 
>   formatted nodes
> 3 it should be possible to know at which position (byte, line) in the 
>   output file an @-command occured, for the anchors and index
>   formatting.
> 
> The 3rd item may require major changes in the API if formatting
> functions are to report how many bytes and lines they appended and
> prepended.
> 
> I don't have time currently to do the info backend, but, hopefully, once
> it is done texi2html could be merged in texinfo itself, so this release
> may be the last one as a separate project -- which would match well
> with breaking the API severly for the byte-counting...
> 
> On that subject, if you know texi2html authors or you are a texi2html 
> author not willing to assign the copyright to the FSF, please tell it, 
> such that we can rewrite the corresponding code.
> 
> --
> Pat
> 
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