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

[Karl Berry]

Hi Derek,

    Does it really make sense for the Texi2html installer to handle the 
    --enable-multiplatform configure option at all?  

Well, it makes it simple for us to include it in TeX Live, since it is
the option that every other program we include uses.  Clearly it is not
a critical component of TeX Live (neither is Texinfo, for that matter),
If you want to excise --enable-multiplatform, I won't argue.

    dealt with a multiplatform aware package that installed both 
    platform-dependent and platform independent software based on the same 

That is what TeX Live does, more or less.  It's a long story.  You don't
want to know :).

    At the very least, it seems to me that this could easily confuse 
    somebody intending to install only Texi2html.  They might assume that 
    Texi2html was not platform-independent when they saw that `configure 
    --help' reported supporting the --enable-multiplatform option.

I don't have a counterargument, but since --enable-multiplatform has
been in texi2html for some time, if anyone was confused, I imagine you
would have heard about it.  Anyway, I was just asking for a small patch
to what is there now.  If you keep the option, I hope you'll apply the
patch.  If you drop the option, life goes on :).

Thanks,
karl