From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gregory Heytings Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#46236: 26.1; explicit the info files installation Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2021 13:47:39 +0000 Message-ID: <192e82f20f0ff16820ef@heytings.org> References: <875z3bq3p6.fsf@host.localdomain> <83fszkqacg.fsf@gnu.org> <192e82f20f22020cd392@heytings.org> <8335vjrdvi.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=us-ascii Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="34888"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: stefan@marxist.se, marmot-te@riseup.net, 46236@debbugs.gnu.org, rms@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 21 15:48:14 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lZDDC-0008wb-FC for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 21 Apr 2021 15:48:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53636 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lZDDB-0004ez-Cc for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 21 Apr 2021 09:48:13 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:40218) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lZDCz-0004eI-SF for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Apr 2021 09:48:01 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:45683) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lZDCz-0006GJ-Ka for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Apr 2021 09:48:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lZDCz-0001OO-IC for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Apr 2021 09:48:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Gregory Heytings Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2021 13:48:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 46236 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 46236-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B46236.16190128695333 (code B ref 46236); Wed, 21 Apr 2021 13:48:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 46236) by debbugs.gnu.org; 21 Apr 2021 13:47:49 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57229 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lZDCj-0001Nt-G1 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 21 Apr 2021 09:47:49 -0400 Original-Received: from heytings.org ([95.142.160.155]:47310) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lZDCe-0001L6-Mb for 46236@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 21 Apr 2021 09:47:44 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=heytings.org; s=20210101; t=1619012859; bh=08IxvNL+2jM5+ayjRfGPoCqhibofIDWDikgjyHhHe90=; h=Date:From:To:cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:Message-ID:References:From; b=uP4RKNZj9+fOvhYMc3k/qc59QnsizTHfm+H1RxC1cI1Wcm0GfKu4AkTN8YhxV7Z+F /TEJkoa4Vc9FcK9/a1FZcyz+F6sdKUn5Worah66gsu8lFob6CxIKNOYK+mxfBlPTB+ JZe8AuH2lueNb04FnFa3ScZODjkvbSmfLYdmtDm24PXZuYWT0eoF1cISyTMUwTWmHa nez5h/XASvUqHxnR2tTFi/bS6DR1mAI4Jojme0LpFQBEli0hLiPCr4QZxO5MIX5+QF +IjeXtLxK6qGQHTaBb4FzUqVBHVJuJZcWzIZKNMl6vvl5/biIxr1nYogCHEsTX+2T7 e3FSlJ9GQJZ+g== In-Reply-To: <8335vjrdvi.fsf@gnu.org> X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:204607 Archived-At: >> 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.