Re: A question for package maintainers still using TexInfo < 5

[John W. Eaton]

On 04/23/2015 06:22 AM, Michael Goffioul wrote:

> The bad thing about texinfo-5 is the switch to Perl, which make it much
> slower to load than texinfo-4. This has made running the test suite a
> real pain, while most of the time is spent loading/running makeinfo
> (that makes timing "make check" less relevant).

Oh, *that* probably explains why I stopped seeing a significant 
difference in performance with the atomic refcount change.

 I remember that jwe told
> me at last octconf that's the/one reason he sticked to texinfo-4. Maybe
> he switched to texinfo-5 since then :).

I've switched because Texinfo 5 is what is in Debian testing now.  But 
I'm still somewhat annoyed by how long it takes to create the info 
format version of the Octave manual now.

jwe