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- For in Automake 2.0 (DONE)
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- We will drop split info files in Automake 2.0.
- See automake bug#13351: <http://debbugs.gnu.org/13351>.
- Basically, it has been confirmed that the original reason behind
- the existence of split info files was indeed "efficiency,
- especially memory size":
- <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/texinfo-devel/2012-08/msg00024.html>
- So split info files have lost their reason d'etre on modern systems
- (where even Emacs has become a lightweight program ;-). And you are
- not using an embedded system to read Info documentation, right?
- In addition, it appears that the use of split info files (at least
- the way Automake-generated rules have been handling them for a long
- time) can cause real problems in some (admittedly quite corner-case)
- situations; see automake bug#12320: <http://debbugs.gnu.org/12320>.
- This change should be completely transparent to the developer (no
- adjustments needed to be made to Makefile.am or other parts of the
- build system). In case some CI system or overly picky build script
- used to rely on that feature, they'll have to be adjusted; but that
- is expected to be a rare occurrence, and thus a price worth pay for
- the nice simplifications and the fixlets this planned change will
- offer us.
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