Re: Standard directory for documentation in EPUB format

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Gavin Smith <gavinsmith0123@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2022 19:58:19 +0000
> Cc: bug-texinfo@gnu.org
> 
> On Wed, Nov 09, 2022 at 09:36:44PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > htmldir, dvidir etc. all default to ${docdir} by default (with
> > > autoconf/automake).  There would seem to be no benefit to
> > > creating an epubdir along the same lines, in my opinion.
> > 
> > I thought you were saying that EPUB should be treated the same as
> > HTML, PDF, DVI, etc., in which case the EPUB directory should default
> > to docdir, but, like htmldir and dvidir, allow installing EPUB in
> > another place.  That made sense to me, but then came your last
> > sentence and confused me, because it actually says EPUB will NOT have
> > its variable, unlike those other formats.  Such a difference should be
> > due to some valid reason, IMO, but you don't say what would such a
> > reason be.
> 
> Basically because we don't really know how people will use EPUB format
> and it seems like a lot of trouble (for the Standards document, autoconf
> and automake) to add extra rules for EPUB, which will be there forever,
> when they may not even be necessary in the first place.  This is just my
> opinion, though.

There's no reason to believe people will use EPUB any different from
how they use PDF.

My opinion is that it is easier to make those few changes now than to
deal with questions and arguments about it later.  YMMV.