Hello, A new feature of Texinfo 7.3 is a new SWIG interface. It is not really advertised much, and it is not enabled in the default case, even if SWIG is present, you need to call configure with --with-swig. The reason why it is not enabled in the default case, in addition to being a new somewhat experimental feature with an API that is not going to be stable right now, is that it does not work on some platforms (OpenBSD and Windows, for instance).
However it should work on GNU/Linux. Therefore, I think that it may be good if packages of GNU/Texinfo could build and install the Perl SWIG interface, maybe in a subpackage. There is absolutely nothing urgent about it, but I think that it is an interesting interface to parse Texinfo outside of GNU/Texinfo for other purposes than converting Texinfo to other formats. I already wrote a parser for Texinfo for po4a based on the Perl SWIG interface, which could be merged some day, to have a better suport for Texinfo in po4a: https://github.com/mquinson/po4a/pull/615/ -- Pat
