manpage writing [rst, asciidoc, pod] was [Re: What should Python apps do when asked to show help?]
Paul Rubin
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Sat Apr 30 03:44:29 EDT 2016
Rustom Mody <rustompmody at gmail.com> writes:
> At that point what I gleaned was that original makeinfo was in C
> New one was rewritten in perl.
The previous one was definitely written in C and I've looked at the code
some. I hadn't known there was a new one. The C one was actually the
second one. The first one was written in Emacs Lisp but it was
painfully slow on the hardware of that era. The C version was
cumbersome by comparison. If they wanted to get rid of the C version
now that the hardware is 100x faster or more, it's amusing that they did
a Perl rewrite instead of reviving the Lisp version. Pandoc has a
significant user base now though, and it looks like it also supports
texinfo. So I wonder what the new Makeinfo does that pandoc doesn't.
Maybe pandoc doesn't support Info? That could be added, I'm sure.
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