GNU bug report logs - #60190
29.0.50; Improve `Info-goto-node-web'

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Message #47 received at 60190 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 60190 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, mbork <at> mbork.pl, eduardoochs <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#60190: 29.0.50; Improve `Info-goto-node-web'
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2022 14:04:01 +0200

> From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2022 19:05:01 -0600
> Cc: eduardoochs <at> gmail.com, 60190 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, mbork <at> mbork.pl
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > There's no need to maintain a list, we can produce it at build time by
> > looking at the DIR file we produce in the info subdirectory.  This
> > would solve the maintenance problem cleanly and easily.
> 
> OK, we could do that.
> 
> What would be the cleanest way to make that information available to
> Lisp?  Do we just generate a new file at build-time and put it there, or
> is there a better way?

I'd think we could generate a info-something.eld file that would then
be installed by "make install" and read by info.el when this command
is invoked.  WDYT?

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