Hello DJGPP users, I was advised to ask you about whether anybody uses recent Texinfo releases on DJGPP. We are considering removing what attempts at supporting DJGPP currently exist. See my mail below to the Texinfo development list.
It is likely we will remove attempts at supporting DJGPP unless there is evidence that somebody is actually using it successfully. Best regards Gavin ----- Forwarded message from Gavin Smith <gavinsmith0...@gmail.com> ----- Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2024 17:40:17 +0000 From: Gavin Smith <gavinsmith0...@gmail.com> To: bug-texinfo@gnu.org Subject: Remove DJGPP support files? There is still a top-level directory in the Texinfo distribution called "djgpp". I don't remember any reports from anybody building or running Texinfo on DJGPP. All the mailing list posts I could find on it are from over 10 years ago. I don't know if Texinfo would still build on this platform. We still have a comment in configure.ac: AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([config.h:config.in])dnl Keep filename to 8.3 for MS-DOS. I doubt this is relevant any more as many of the filenames are much longer, especially in texi2any. I very much doubt that the package could be built on a system with 8.3 length filenames (although I am not sure to what extent DJGPP programs could use longer filenames). Unless there are reports that a recent release of Texinfo acually builds and runs on DJGPP (most relevant would be releases with the Perl texi2any, after version 5.0) and that this is useful to somebody, then I would propose removing the code that purports to support it. This would be the "djgpp" subdirectory and a small amount of platform-conditional code elsewhere. ----- End forwarded message -----
