Re: [Groff] groff CVS now needs texinfo 4.8

[Kees Zeelenberg]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Keith Marshall" <address@hidden>
To: "Werner LEMBERG" <address@hidden>; <address@hidden>
Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 11:14 PM
Subject: Re: [Groff] groff CVS now needs texinfo 4.8


> To get 'makeinfo' for Win32, I am using Kees Zeelenberg's GnuWin32 port of
> texinfo, which is currently at version 4.6.  Unfortunately, Kees doesn't
> donate his patches back to the originating GNU projects -- official 
> texinfo
> 4.8 sources don't build with my MSYS/MinGW tool chain -- and I don't have
> time to devote to porting it myself :-(
To build 4.6, there were no patches required. Of course, it may be that 4.8 
requires
new patches.
Any patches are always added in diff-form to the sources as available from 
the
GnuWin32 site, and so previous patches, if any, are always easy to apply.
In the past I've sometimes sent patches to original maintainers, but usually 
they are not
interested in MS-Windows ports. In fact, even Groff hasn't applied patches
submitted almost a year ago; see
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2004-05/msg00206.html
(this is not to say that Groff-ers are not interested in MS-Windows ports; 
in fact,
Groff is one of the few large packages that are very well suited for 
compiling on
MS-Windows).

Kees