The .NA header promises information on "Clients which communicate well
with the Empire4 Server". The page doesn't really deliver. It talks
about client support for asynchronous notifications. It stopped
listing separate client projects in 4.0.7 (1997). Not mentioning such
clients isn't just outdated, it's actively misleading.
Perhaps an up-to-date info page on clients would be useful, but I
can't write one right now. Delete.
Loses a bit of information for client developers that was tacked on in
4.0.7: pointers to dump commands, and an explanation of timestamps. I
trust client writers can find "info xdump" without this.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@pond.sub.org>
(all): Depend on info.
Flatten info directory. This undoes the move to one subdirectory per
chapter, which was done during Empire 2. The structure doesn't buy us
much, as the info name space is flat, and it complicates makefiles.
Overhaul info.pl:
- It now wants to run in the root of the build tree.
- Information on source files and subjects is now stored in makefiles,
thus info.pl no longer picks up random junk from the file system.
- Clean up Perl anachronisms, in particular use subroutine arguments and
results rather than global variables where convenient.
- Change format of diagnostics to the common format used by GNU tools,
so that Emacs and the like can parse it.
- Catch missing .SA.
- When creating a new subject file, cowardly refuse to overwrite an
existing file.
- Subject files contain topics sorted by chapter, then by name. The
order of chapters used to depend on how Perl sorts hash keys. Fix
it.
