Re: html texinfo install?

[Alexandre Duret-Lutz]

>>> "Karl" == Karl Berry <address@hidden> writes:

[...]

 Karl> it might finally be time to propose a standard directory
 Karl> for HTML output from Texinfo manuals.
[...]
 Karl> Since what Automake does will influence more
 Karl> distributions than anything else, I wanted to bring this
 Karl> up with you first.  If you-all think it's a good idea and
 Karl> we agree on the details, I'll propose the coding
 Karl> standards change to rms.

As far as Automake is concerned the place where things are
installed does not matter.  Autoconf will have to define these
variables.

However Automake is more concerned by "details" like this:

 Karl> Also, I'm not sure if make all should make them and make
 Karl> install should install them by default.  I'm inclined to
 Karl> say no, simply because including the HTML in the
 Karl> distributions (which would be the implication) seems like
 Karl> a lot of bloat, and I haven't exactly been flooded with
 Karl> complaints on this subject.

Having `make install-texinfohtml' and `make uninstall-texinfohtml' 
looks fine to me.

(Note: we already have `make html' to build the Texinfo manuals,
plus any user-supplied html-local rule.)

 Karl> What do you think?

I think it would be better that you repost your mail to
address@hidden to get feedback from any interested automake
user.
-- 
Alexandre Duret-Lutz