Richard Stallman <[email protected]> writes: > [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] > [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] > [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > > I agree with changing the GNU standards. For many years requiring DVI > > has been unnecessary > > Looking at standards.texi and make-stds.texi, I don't see anything that > requires DVI format. All it says is how to handle generating DVI format > if you want to handle it. > > Could you please explain the problem you see?
I also don't see any strong requirement on DVI. However by referring to
DVI it gains importance and a special status, and support is somewhat
implied by requiring ./configure to support --dvidir as in:
In addition, the ‘configure’ script should take options corresponding
to most of the standard directory variables (*note Directory
Variables::). Here is the list:
--prefix --exec-prefix --bindir --sbindir --libexecdir --sysconfdir
--sharedstatedir --localstatedir --runstatedir
--libdir --includedir --oldincludedir
--datarootdir --datadir --infodir --localedir --mandir --docdir
--htmldir --dvidir --pdfdir --psdir
Paul's patch drop --dvidir here, to suggest that DVI is no longer
important enough to be mentioned here. While we could keep it, I don't
see any problem changing documents to stop mentioning DVI at all. If
someone wants to support it, they can continue to do so, but we don't
have to bog down these documents with references to ancient formats.
/Simon
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