On Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at 8:00 PM Gerald Pfeifer <ger...@pfeifer.com> wrote: > > On Fri, 10 Mar 2023, Sandra Loosemore wrote: > > AFAIK we have not knowingly changed any specific requirements beyond the > > stated 4.7 and 4.9 for PDF output, but it concerns me that nobody is > > likely to be using versions that old on a regular basis to make sure > > they continue to work and we haven't unknowingly introduced dependencies > > on newer Texinfo features. > > I'm generally very interested in ensuring we do not hurt users who do not > have the latest and greatest of the day. On the other hand, if there's a > few people using (more or less deliberately abandonware) we should not > feel too bad if something breaks. > > > Anyway, I think I will leave the existing requirement alone for now, and > > just add a note that newer versions produce better output. > > With Richi mentioning that SLE 12 (which was first released 9 years ago) > uses texinfo 4.13a and Andrew mentioning that RHEL 7 uses texinfo 5.1 I > would feel very comfortable making either 4.13 or even 5.1 the new minimum. > > (Not because we need to cater to those two Enterprise Linux distros, > rather since they tend to fall on the conversative side.)
We could also opt to ship generated pdf documentation with the release tarballs - the pre-built info format plus manual pages is probably of less use these days? Richard. > Gerald
