Hi Bruno, Bruno Haible via Gnulib discussion list <bug-gnulib@gnu.org> writes:
> Having said that, I would be in favour of retiring the DVI format from > the GNU Coding Standards. The DVI format was commonplace in the 1990ies, > but lost popularity to the PDF format starting 2008 (when PDF became an > open standard). Nowadays, even the math arXiv does not offer DVI as a > download format any more [1]. But this needs to be done through the > proper channels: first the GNU standards, then GNU Autoconf and Automake. I agree. Another example is that on Fedora the default PDF viewer for Gnome evince will not even understand DVI files without installing the additional evince-dvi package. Collin
