From: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com>
To: Sandra Loosemore <sandra.loosemore@siemens.com>
Cc: "Iain Sandoe" <idsandoe@googlemail.com>,
"Richard Biener" <richard.guenther@gmail.com>,
"Andrew Pinski" <pinskia@gmail.com>,
"Sandra Loosemore" <sandra@codesourcery.com>,
"Arsen Arsenović" <arsen@aarsen.me>,
"GCC Patches" <gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org>,
"Joseph Myers" <joseph@codesourcery.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] A small Texinfo refinement
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2023 20:00:28 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45b56ddb-62f6-afe1-4a20-ad674c8cc4ab@pfeifer.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e45049c9-5042-13cd-ce0b-8bf0db8dca93@siemens.com>
On Fri, 10 Mar 2023, Sandra Loosemore wrote:
> AFAIK we have not knowingly changed any specific requirements beyond the
> stated 4.7 and 4.9 for PDF output, but it concerns me that nobody is
> likely to be using versions that old on a regular basis to make sure
> they continue to work and we haven't unknowingly introduced dependencies
> on newer Texinfo features.
I'm generally very interested in ensuring we do not hurt users who do not
have the latest and greatest of the day. On the other hand, if there's a
few people using (more or less deliberately abandonware) we should not
feel too bad if something breaks.
> Anyway, I think I will leave the existing requirement alone for now, and
> just add a note that newer versions produce better output.
With Richi mentioning that SLE 12 (which was first released 9 years ago)
uses texinfo 4.13a and Andrew mentioning that RHEL 7 uses texinfo 5.1 I
would feel very comfortable making either 4.13 or even 5.1 the new minimum.
(Not because we need to cater to those two Enterprise Linux distros,
rather since they tend to fall on the conversative side.)
Gerald
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-03-10 19:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-02-23 10:27 Arsen Arsenović
2023-02-23 10:27 ` [PATCH v2 1/5] docs: Create Indices appendix Arsen Arsenović
2023-03-09 3:16 ` Sandra Loosemore
2023-03-09 10:12 ` Arsen Arsenović
2023-03-09 20:38 ` Arsen Arsenović
2023-03-11 1:12 ` Sandra Loosemore
2023-03-11 1:34 ` Arsen Arsenović
2023-03-11 12:22 ` Arsen Arsenović
2023-03-11 19:22 ` Gerald Pfeifer
2023-03-11 20:22 ` Arsen Arsenović
2023-03-11 19:34 ` Sandra Loosemore
2023-03-11 20:14 ` Arsen Arsenović
2023-03-11 20:32 ` [PATCH v2] html: Set CONTENTS_OUTPUT_LOCATION=inline if makeinfo supports it Arsen Arsenović
2023-03-12 10:25 ` [PATCH v2 1/5] docs: Create Indices appendix Gerald Pfeifer
2023-03-12 12:23 ` Arsen Arsenović
2023-02-23 10:27 ` [PATCH v2 2/5] **/*.texi: Reorder index entries Arsen Arsenović
2023-02-23 23:50 ` Gerald Pfeifer
2023-02-23 10:27 ` [PATCH v2 3/5] doc: Add @defbuiltin family of helpers, set documentlanguage Arsen Arsenović
2023-03-09 23:50 ` Sandra Loosemore
2023-02-23 10:27 ` [PATCH v2 4/5] Update texinfo.tex, remove the @gol macro/alias Arsen Arsenović
2023-03-09 23:55 ` Sandra Loosemore
2023-03-10 0:17 ` Gerald Pfeifer
2023-03-10 10:33 ` Thomas Schwinge
2023-03-10 12:49 ` Arsen Arsenović
2023-03-10 15:51 ` Gerald Pfeifer
2023-03-10 15:58 ` Arsen Arsenović
2023-03-10 12:48 ` Arsen Arsenović
2023-03-10 15:49 ` Arsen Arsenović
2023-03-18 20:14 ` Ping (gcc/configure.ac, docs): " Arsen Arsenović
2023-03-20 22:01 ` Sandra Loosemore
2023-03-20 23:06 ` Joseph Myers
2023-03-20 23:27 ` Arsen Arsenović
2023-03-20 23:35 ` Arsen Arsenović
2023-03-21 9:52 ` Arsen Arsenović
2023-03-21 23:11 ` Gerald Pfeifer
2023-02-23 10:27 ` [PATCH v2 5/5] update_web_docs_git: Update CSS reference to new manual CSS Arsen Arsenović
2023-03-10 0:07 ` Sandra Loosemore
2023-03-10 13:00 ` Arsen Arsenović
2023-02-25 22:04 ` [PATCH v2 0/5] A small Texinfo refinement Thomas Schwinge
2023-02-26 14:54 ` Arsen Arsenović
2023-03-08 1:56 ` Sandra Loosemore
2023-03-08 9:11 ` Arsen Arsenović
2023-03-08 18:38 ` Sandra Loosemore
2023-03-08 21:22 ` Arsen Arsenović
2023-03-09 1:09 ` Sandra Loosemore
2023-03-09 1:19 ` Andrew Pinski
2023-03-09 8:26 ` Richard Biener
2023-03-09 23:35 ` Sandra Loosemore
2023-03-10 8:50 ` Iain Sandoe
2023-03-10 17:51 ` Sandra Loosemore
2023-03-10 18:09 ` Sandra Loosemore
2023-03-10 19:00 ` Gerald Pfeifer [this message]
2023-03-13 9:05 ` Richard Biener
2023-03-13 11:01 ` Arsen Arsenović
2023-05-29 15:06 ` NightStrike
2023-05-29 17:26 ` Arsen Arsenović
2023-05-29 19:27 ` Sandra Loosemore
2023-03-09 10:22 ` Arsen Arsenović
2023-03-09 8:28 ` Gerald Pfeifer
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