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Re: [PATCH] gnu: texinfo: Make version 4.13a available
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: [PATCH] gnu: texinfo: Make version 4.13a available |
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Mon, 10 Feb 2014 17:13:47 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.130007 (Ma Gnus v0.7) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) |
Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> skribis:
> This patch adds texinfo-4.13a back to Guix, as an alternative to
> texinfo-5.2.
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> The motivation is that building Guile's manual using texinfo-4.13a takes
> about 6 seconds on my Yeeloong, compared with about 12 *minutes* using
> texinfo-5.2.
Ouch. My laptop is faster, but yeah, I sympathize. :-)
I wonder about the environmental footprint of the switch to Texinfo 5.
> From ea307b2af2d995b4f37c27e52f5d259131d27fe8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Mark H Weaver <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 02:04:38 -0500
> Subject: [PATCH] gnu: texinfo: Make version 4.13a available.
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> * gnu/packages/texinfo.scm (texinfo-4): New variable.
OK to commit.
Thanks,
Ludo’.