On Sat, Aug 19, 2023 at 10:31:38AM +0100, Gavin Smith wrote: > I've started investigating whether texi2any could provide a stub > implementation > of the Unicode::Collate interface for use if Unicode::Collate is not > available, > using simply the builtin Perl cmp operator for sorting. (As a reminder for > anybody reading this discussion, this affects the sorting of document indices, > and may be significant for documents written in languages other than English, > but wouldn't make a noticeable difference in most cases.) This would help > keep the dependencies of Texinfo small.
I've added such a stub and added a test to configure, so that a visible warning will be printed at the end of a configure run warning about missing Unicode::Collate.