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Re: ELPAing all the GNU manuals
From:
David Kastrup
Subject:
Re: ELPAing all the GNU manuals
Date:
2014年9月28日 14:41:55 +0200
User-agent:
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux)
address@hidden writes:
> Nic Ferrier <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden> writes:
>>>
>>>> You'll get one more non-authoritative place to obtain all these
>>>> manuals, and from this place they're not going to be up to date,
>>>> unless you figure out some mechanism of keeping them up to date.
>>>> Keeping them up to date is going to be a lot of work.
>>>
>>> Uh, I don't _want_ my info manuals to be up to date. I want them to
>>> correspond to the software version I have installed. I have nothing to
>>> gain from using copy&paste of some code from a manual that is not yet
>>> supported by my software.
>>
>> I've just realized I am asking for permission and I should just be
>> doing.
>>
>>
>> But here's one reason why things do go into ELPA. General negativity
>> being almost always the first reaction on this list.
>
> So, I will play good cop.
>
> To me it sounds like a cool idea.
>
> Apart from just being good cop, I see some actual benefits.
>
> There is precedence in the Java world for this sort of thing, and there
> its pretty useful.
>
> In the Emacs world, we would gain increased visibility of the GNU
> world from within Emacs. ELPA browser frontends will also be nicer.
>
> Now over to the bad cops...
Uh, you just smoked all the confiscated weed. Now what?
--
David Kastrup
Re: ELPAing all the GNU manuals , Eric Brown, 2014年09月28日
Re: ELPAing all the GNU manuals , Stefan Monnier, 2014年09月28日
Re: ELPAing all the GNU manuals , Matthias Meulien, 2014年09月29日