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2. We still depend on texi2html and the help request by
Jean-Charles, who tried moving to texi2any, not surprisingly was
ignored:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2015-05/msg00032.html
[Werner]
The `non surprisingly' is polemic. As you certainly know, if noone
answers on the mailing list, the request is not ignored, but nobody
has time or knowledge to help – I really would love to help, but I
also don't have time currently. Just imagine that all developers
write I'm-so-sorry-e-mails for every request...
I didn't mean to be polemic, I just wanted to highlight strongly that
AFAICS we do not have active maintainers of the current tools. The first
point I wrote above, which you think is irrelevant to the discussion, is
relevant.
texi2html is deprecated since 2011. It's still present in most
distributions but I guess that it won't be there forever. For example,
in Debian:
https://wiki.debian.org/Texi2htmlTransition
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2013/05/msg01516.html
There will be a pressing need to move to texi2any quite soon, otherwise
LilyPond may be removed from the distro repository.