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diff --git a/PLANS/texi/drop-split-info-files.txt b/PLANS/texi/drop-split-info-files.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000..a0a5636e7 --- /dev/null +++ b/PLANS/texi/drop-split-info-files.txt @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +For in Automake 2.0 (DONE) +-------------------------- + +We will drop split info files in Automake 2.0. +See automake bug#13351: <http://debbugs.gnu.org/13351>. + +Basically, it has been confirmed that the original reason behind +the existence of split info files was indeed "efficiency, +especially memory size": +<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/texinfo-devel/2012-08/msg00024.html> + +So split info files have lost their reason d'etre on modern systems +(where even Emacs has become a lightweight program ;-). And you are +not using an embedded system to read Info documentation, right? + +In addition, it appears that the use of split info files (at least +the way Automake-generated rules have been handling them for a long +time) can cause real problems in some (admittedly quite corner-case) +situations; see automake bug#12320: <http://debbugs.gnu.org/12320>. + +This change should be completely transparent to the developer (no +adjustments needed to be made to Makefile.am or other parts of the +build system). In case some CI system or overly picky build script +used to rely on that feature, they'll have to be adjusted; but that +is expected to be a rare occurrence, and thus a price worth pay for +the nice simplifications and the fixlets this planned change will +offer us. |