Re: SCWM's embedded docs/text proc benchmarks/perl's 10x faster than guile.
Perry E. Metzger (perry@piermont.com)
Mon, 17 Aug 1998 10:27:00 -0400
Harvey J. Stein writes:
> "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> writes:
>
> > Harvey J. Stein writes:
> > > 1) There's been some talk of using a similar documentation system for
> > > guile, but I'd assume you'd need a guile version of the
> > > extractor. Jim's also said that they need to generate info pages,
> > > not sgml. It should be pretty easy to modify my version to also
> > > output texinfo or info.
> >
> > Better to stick to the Docbook DTD in my opinion, and produce a more
> > general tool to create TeXinfo from the SGML. There is a reason lots
> > of people are moving towards using the Docbook based tools.
>
> So you're basically suggesting that we do without info & tex output
> until someone writes docbook->info & docbook->tex drivers, even though
> it'd be pretty trivial to output texinfo directly from the extractor.
Yes. That is because the issue isn't the extractor -- it is the pain
and suffering associated with converting the doc strings themselves,
which should be in docbook over the long haul. Best to do the right
thing now, which will (at the very least) pressure the rest of the
correct solution.
Perry