Re: Contributing to Emacs Development

[karl]

    >   Add to that a mechanism for building a dir file out of
    >  snippets that programs can place in a directory, 

There are two such contributed programs in the Texinfo source
distribution already.  Maybe one of them would suffice?
./util/fix-info-dir and ./util/gen-dir-node.  I haven't yet decided what
to officially support or install, if anything.

Thanks,
Karl