Re: when split put in a directory

On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 02:21:54PM -0500, Derek Robert Price wrote:
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> I don't have a strong opinion on this one way or another, but you do
> make me wonder why makeinfo creates split info files in the current
> directory but puts split HTML in a subdirectory?

I don't know for sure. However I can see why I would have done that. As
makeinfo generates files with name the node names of the manual, if
they go in the local directory (where the manual is) it makes a lot of 
files with weird names in the same directory than the manual itself. I
think it is cleaner to try to keep the resulting files and the manual file
in separate directories whenever the result consists in more that few
files. That's what I currently do for the singular manual which is very big
with generated images and so on.

I, personnaly, think that the unsplit manuals can go in the same directory 
than the manual but the split should be put apart. However this isn't
backward compatible, thus I am not sure on what to do. 
Maybe change the behaviour and use a configure switch ?

Pat