[tex-live] Bug#425085: texlive-doc-en: catalogue entries with dangling links
David Kastrup
dak at gnu.org
Fri Jun 22 00:48:28 CEST 2007
karl at freefriends.org (Karl Berry) writes:
> since it is a one-time exercise,
>
> I don't understand. Any massaging process will be rerun a zillion
> times, since of course the Catalogue is being updated constantly. (Not
> that I have any objection to Elisp myself.)
But it is going to be run by people maintaining TeXlive, not people
fetching TeXlive. Similar to ls-R regeneration, I would guess.
Could probably be rewritten at some time in Lua, but Lua seems less
convenient for in-place text manipulation. And I know I'll be faster
with prototyping in Elisp.
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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
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