Re: html texinfo install?

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 08:26, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
> [Eric I don't think you really meant to conceal this from Karl
> and Patrice, so I've added the Cc: back.  Please be careful not
> to drop it.]
> 
> >>> "Eric" == Eric Siegerman <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>  Eric> On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 12:19:05PM -0800, Bruce Korb wrote:
> [...]
>  >> Yeah!  That's the idea!  Type in, ``make html'' and any html-making
>  >> gets triggered, whether it is texinfo based or not.  :-)
> 
>  Eric> Or, indeed, whether part is texinfo-based *and* part not.  Of
>  Eric> course, the target for making the texinfo-based subset of the
>  Eric> HTML might indeed be "texinfohtml", and correspondingly for
>  Eric> install and uninstall.  But that should be purely a detail of
>  Eric> automake's implementation:
>  Eric> html:  texinfohtml  whatever_other_html_targets_make_sense
> 
>  Eric> It need not, and IMO should not, be mentioned in the coding
>  Eric> standards.
> 
> This makes sense to me.  
> 
> `make html' is not a problem.  However if `make install-html'
> and `make uninstall-html' are introduced and must (as we all
> expect) install more than just makeinfo-generated files, then
> the GNU Coding Standards should also define a destination
> directory for these other files.  Something like $htmldir.
Please don't. 

Remember, html is just _one_ *output* format among other output format.
If htmldir is added, we will soon have requests for rtf, dvi, pdf, xml,
docbook, M$-doc etc.

May-be a --XXXdocdir mechanism, optionally adding XXX=html,rtf etc.
would be required.

Ralf