Re: [platform-testers] Texinfo 7.1.90 pretest available

[Gavin Smith]

On Sun, Oct 27, 2024 at 05:30:05PM +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 25, 2024 at 04:10:55PM +0100, Gavin Smith wrote:
> > texi2any will issue more warnings by default
> > for unknown web URLs for cross-references in HTML output.
> 
> With this change, the Texinfo manual had warnings for manuals in
> pod2texi.  To avoid this issue, I changed pod2texi to generate @url to
> MetaCPAN for external PODs.
> 
> There is a new dependency for pod2texi and Pod-Simple-Texinfo,
> Pod::Simple::XHTML.
> 
> I think that it would be important to have this change in the release,
> and maybe this could justify a new pretest, after there has been more
> reports?

Will people be able to build and run the rest of Texinfo without
this module?  If so, then it make sense to make this a dependency of
pod2texi.