From: Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: stefan@marxist.se, marmot-te@riseup.net, 46236@debbugs.gnu.org,
rms@gnu.org
Subject: bug#46236: 26.1; explicit the info files installation
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2021 13:47:39 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <192e82f20f0ff16820ef@heytings.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8335vjrdvi.fsf@gnu.org>
>> A suggestion: when the info files bundled with Emacs cannot be found,
>> download them from info.gnu.org (after asking the user if they're okay
>> with that) and install them into ~/.emacs.d/info.
>
> We already have the latest manuals at
>
> https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/emacs.html
>
> but what you suggest will require to maintain several versions back,
> which is a non-trivial complication of the release procedures that are
> already quite complex and tedious. So I don't think we should take this
> issue to be our problem to that level.
>
In fact this makes it even easier than what I thought: it would suffice to
add 60 files in the https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/info/
directory. Of course there's the version problem. Perhaps an
"emacs-version" file could be added in that directory, it would be
compared against emacs-version, with a warning when the files are for a
more recent version.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-21 13:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-01 14:10 bug#46236: 26.1; explicit the info files installation marmot-te
2021-02-03 5:48 ` Richard Stallman
2021-04-21 3:20 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-04-21 9:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-04-21 12:06 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-04-21 12:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-04-21 12:40 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-04-21 15:32 ` Glenn Morris
2021-04-21 16:34 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-04-21 12:32 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-04-21 13:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-04-21 13:47 ` Gregory Heytings [this message]
2021-04-21 13:11 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-04-21 13:54 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-04-21 14:13 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-03-06 14:25 ` Tomas Nordin
2021-03-07 6:11 ` Richard Stallman
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