[SPAM] Re: [Texi2html-bug] configure change for TeX Live in texi2html

[Patrice Dumas]

On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 10:42:43PM -0500, Derek Price wrote:
> Does it really make sense for the Texi2html installer to handle the 
> --enable-multiplatform configure option at all?  Texi2html is written 
> entirely in Perl and thus is platform independent.  I admit I haven't dealt 
> with a multiplatform aware package that installed both platform-dependent 
> and platform independent software based on the same set of configure 
> options before, but it seems to me it may make sense for the 
> platform-independent software (Texi2html here) to completely ignore the 
> option and install itself in a platform-independent bin directory.

If perl and some modules used are considered to be part of a system, then 
texi2html isn't completly platform independent. Though it is much more
independent than compiled/linked code.

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Pat