Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/06/02/09:08:10
Jan Hubicka <hubicka AT ta DOT jcu DOT cz> wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> >
> > On Fri, 29 May 1998, Jan Hubicka wrote:
> >
> > > So I started to think
> > > about adding texinfo browser directly into distribution, but the default
> > > one is rather big. Is there some small such browser (say maximally 10KB)
> > > available?
> >
> > I don't know about any such browser, and I doubt if it is possible,
> > even if you leave out many features. Browsing Info files is a
> > sirprisingly complex task, since the format leaves a lot of leeway.
>
> shame... please can you give me some example about such complex
> problem? I tought text is already formated and just contains links
> with :: and nodes....
More or less, but there are a LOT of small details. And what's even worst I saw
info files that simply violates the format (the description of the format is in
the texinfo.info file if I remmember well). I found it in one libc.info from
Linux!
Additionally any info browser MUST support gzip compressed files. Debian's
standards says that all the .info files distributed must be compressed with
gzip -9. It adds some complexity. Another problem are the splitted .info files,
they are much more efficient (better speed and less memory needed), but again:
it makes the things more complex.
To make an stable and really functional InfView I spend a lot of time (and
code).
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