Re: makeinfo 5.0 is 34x slower when building Emacs info

[Karl Berry]

Well, I am not much of a fan of C++, but I recognize your arguments, and
anyway, all that doesn't matter one way or another.  What matters is
what someone is willing to actually write and maintain.  Patrice was
willing to put in the (enormous amount of) work necessary to create a
new implementation and hundreds of tests for the finicky details to keep
it essentially compatible with the C makeinfo.  If he had wanted to
write it in C++/Java/whatever, then I would have been ok with that, in
principle.

Anyway, even with being able to use his work as a starting point, it's
not even close to a GSoC project, in my mind.  Or anything to be
undertaken without a serious, long-term commitment.  Even with Patrice's
long-time previous experience with texi2html, it took years.

So, ultimately, I have no better answer than what I already said :(.

k