Opened 11 years ago

Closed 9 years ago

#41790 closed enhancement (fixed)

Replace texi2html @5.0_1 with texinfo @5.2

Reported by: larryv (Lawrence Velázquez) Owned by: macports-tickets@…
Priority: Normal Milestone:
Component: ports Version:
Keywords: Cc: dbevans (David B. Evans), jeremyhu (Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia), takanori@…, nerdling (Jeremy Lavergne), dliessi (Davide Liessi), cooljeanius (Eric Gallager)
Port: gnustep-make-docs gauche-c-wrapper ffmpeg ffmpeg-devel pTeX lilypond lilypond-devel

Description

Texi2HTML was subsumed by Texinfo a while ago. It’d be great if the few ports that currently require it could switch to using Texinfo so we could retire the texi2html port.

Change History (9)

comment:1 Changed 11 years ago by jmroot (Joshua Root)

While texi2html is indeed deprecated in favour of texi2any from texinfo, note that it's not a drop-in replacement. Docs here:

http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/manual/texinfo/html_node/texi2html.html

comment:2 Changed 11 years ago by dliessi (Davide Liessi)

Currently LilyPond is approximating the next stable release (2.18). It is highly unlikely that they may decide to change their documentation building system right now. This means that texi2html should be kept in MacPorts at least throughout the lifetime of LilyPond 2.18, which probably means more than one year.

comment:3 Changed 11 years ago by dliessi (Davide Liessi)

Cc: davide.liessi@… added

Cc Me!

comment:4 Changed 11 years ago by cooljeanius (Eric Gallager)

Cc: egall@… added

Cc Me!

comment:5 Changed 11 years ago by dbevans (David B. Evans)

Suggested as enhancement to ffmpeg developers in https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/3232#ticket

comment:6 Changed 11 years ago by dbevans (David B. Evans)

Reply from ffmpeg is here citing scarcity of texi2any in distributions.

comment:7 in reply to:  6 Changed 10 years ago by cooljeanius (Eric Gallager)

Replying to devans@…:

Reply from ffmpeg is here citing scarcity of texi2any in distributions.

...so it appears we have a chicken-and-the-egg problem here. Have any other distributions added texi2any in the last 7 months?

comment:8 Changed 10 years ago by dbevans (David B. Evans)

As of yesterday the upstream ticket was assigned to a developer so maybe there's still hope. Personally, I don't think it's a big deal one way or the other.

comment:9 Changed 9 years ago by dbevans (David B. Evans)

Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

Fixed upstream in http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=commitdiff;h=17ad5fbb8af3ea3fad689064bc84ecfdfe52f0c2

ffmpeg now uses makeinfo (provided by texinfo) for documentation generation if available with fallback to old texi2html.

ffmpeg, ffmpeg-devel fixed to depend on texinfo rather than texi2html in r136462, r136463.

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