Re: texinfo in Google Summer of Code

2021-02-10 Thread Gavin Smith
On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 12:15:39PM -0800, Per Bothner wrote: > On 2/10/21 1:07 AM, Gavin Smith wrote: > > For the long term health of the Texinfo project, more people do need > > to understand this Perl code. Nobody has come forward to write new > > back-ends to generate other output formats (LaTeX

Re: fopen()-pclose() bug in install-info

2021-02-10 Thread Gavin Smith
On Tue, Feb 09, 2021 at 10:02:47PM +0100, Barath Aron wrote: > On 2/9/21 9:55 PM, Gavin Smith wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 09, 2021 at 09:10:28PM +0100, Barath Aron wrote: > > > The code path I wrote is the trace of the program, I didn't made it up. It > > > first opened a regular, non-compressed file wi

Re: texinfo in Google Summer of Code

2021-02-10 Thread Patrice Dumas
On Tue, Feb 09, 2021 at 04:20:15PM -0800, Per Bothner wrote: > Do we want to mentor a Google Summer of Code student this year? > > I'm particularly interested in EPUB3 support: > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2021-01/msg8.html > I can mentor but it would be best to have a co-m

Re: texinfo in Google Summer of Code

2021-02-10 Thread Per Bothner
On 2/10/21 1:07 AM, Gavin Smith wrote: For the long term health of the Texinfo project, more people do need to understand this Perl code. Nobody has come forward to write new back-ends to generate other output formats (LaTeX, Org Mode, MediaWiki...). I don't think it's much to do with the fact it

Re: texinfo in Google Summer of Code

2021-02-10 Thread Gavin Smith
On Tue, Feb 09, 2021 at 04:20:15PM -0800, Per Bothner wrote: > Do we want to mentor a Google Summer of Code student this year? > > I'm particularly interested in EPUB3 support: > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2021-01/msg8.html > I can mentor but it would be best to have a co-m