Re: missing fix-info-dir in dist tar balll; RFE: integrate fix-info-dir script into info binary

[Gavin Smith]

On Sat, Dec 10, 2022 at 09:38:17AM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Gavin Smith <gavinsmith0123@gmail.com>
> > Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2022 00:22:37 +0000
> > Cc: bug-texinfo@gnu.org
> > 
> > The script was under contrib/fix-info-dir.  The whole contrib/ directory
> > was excluded from the tar ball.
> > 
> > Which distributions use the script and when/how is it run?
> > 
> > The script appears to have hardly any attention paid to it since
> > it was written (the copyright year in the version message is still
> > printed as 1998!).
> > 
> > I think it's unlikely that we could immediately add the functionality
> > to the info binary and the more immediate change would be distribute
> > the script.
> 
> AFAIU, the script's effect is equivalent to deleting the existing DIR
> file and then running install-info on all the files in that directory
> to recreate DIR.  Am I missing something?

Yes, so putting this functionality inside the info program would require
it to open and process every single Info file on its path, which could
be slow.