Ian Zimmerman wrote: > Another possiblity to hold the structure is a XML file. > Unfortunately perl is only standard now. Hmm, I heard somebody > was on a campaign to make python important or better? That would > help a lot, python has great XML support. dh_installinfo is able to determine the section of an info page by looking at the content of the info file, and is able to determine which file is the main file in a collection of info files by looking at the filenames. This is all the info it needs to pass to install-info, and it can all be found by just examining the files. So why not just let install-info look at all the installed info files, find the above data on its own, and generate the info dir based on that? This would eliminate a lot of the possible problems with removing entries correctly, and would be very simple as it would need to store no external state, and could simply regenerate the info dir from scratch each time instead of the error-prone editing it in place that install-info does now. -- see shy jo
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