On 10/17/22 16:16, Paul Iannetta wrote:
> Hi Martin,
> 
> Thank you very much for porting the documentation to Sphinx, it is
> very convenient to use, especially the menu on the left and the
> search bar.

Thanks, I also like it!

> 
> However, I also regularly browse and search the documentation through
> info, especially when I want to use regexps to search or need to
> include a special character (eg.,+,-,_,(; this can happen when I
> search for '(define' ) for example) in the search string.
> 
> Does the port to Sphinx means the end of texinfo? Or, will both be
> available as it is the case now with the official texinfo and your
> unofficial splichal.eu pages.

It will be still available same as now where manual pages and info pages
are built if you compile GCC from sources. We haven't been publishing manual
pages and info pages on our web pages, people typically get these from
their distribution packages.

Does it help? Or do you expect any change regarding what we publish at:
https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/
?

Cheers,
Martin

> 
> Paul
> 
> On Mon, Oct 17, 2022 at 03:28:34PM +0200, Martin Liška wrote:
>> Hello.
>>
>> Based on the very positive feedback I was given at the Cauldron Sphinx 
>> Documentation BoF,
>> I'm planning migrating the documentation on 9th November. There are still 
>> some minor comments
>> from Sandra when it comes to the PDF output, but we can address that once 
>> the conversion is done.
>>
>> The reason I'm sending the email now is that I was waiting for latest Sphinx 
>> release (5.3.0) that
>> simplifies reference format for options and results in much simpler Option 
>> summary section ([1])
>>
>> The current GCC master (using Sphinx 5.3.0) converted docs can be seen here:
>> https://splichal.eu/scripts/sphinx/
>>
>> If you see any issues with the converted documentation, or have a feedback 
>> about it,
>> please reply to this email.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Martin
>>
>> [1] https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/pull/10840
>> [1] 
>> https://splichal.eu/scripts/sphinx/gcc/_build/html/gcc-command-options/option-summary.html
>>
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