Re: html cross refs proposal

> Also, I don't like the idea of reading every file in the directory.
> That just seems unnecessarily complex to me, and would cause trouble
> when we want to add files for other purposes.  Let's just read one file,
> say "htmlxref.cnf".

Such a system is a real pain for packaging. I think that there also should be
a directory where packagers can drop the file corresponding with a package.
For example in a redhat (don't know about other distros) there is an 
/etc/profile.d/
directory for shell scripts, I think it is a good idea.

> How about just "texinfo" for the directory name, thus:
>   SRCDIR/texinfo
>   $HOME/.texinfo
>   SYSCONFDIR/texinfo
>   DATADIR/texinfo

I think it is a good idea.
 
> That way we can add structure below these directories without having to
> add more environment variables or system directories.

A directory containing files with the same format than "htmlxref.cnf" would
seem appropriate to me here, still for packaging ease.

Pat
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