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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Benjamin Riefenstahl <b.riefenstahl@turtle-trading.net>
Cc: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>,
	"H. Dieter Wilhelm" <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de>,
	worik <root@worik.org>,
	53627@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#53627: 29.0.50; Incorrect installation instructions
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2022 16:25:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fsp42ai1.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ee4org12.fsf@turtle-trading.net> (Benjamin Riefenstahl's message of "Sun, 30 Jan 2022 23:54:17 +0100")

Benjamin Riefenstahl <b.riefenstahl@turtle-trading.net> writes:

>> INSTALL and README are intended for the vast majority of people who
>> download the release off ftp.gnu.org (or alpha.gnu.org for pretests.)
>
> I'm not sure this is true anymore.  I'm guessing these days most people
> use pre-built binaries, and those who do get the source get it straight
> from the Git instead of the tarballs.  Maybe that note that if you clone
> the repo you should look at INSTALL.REPO could be more prominent in
> INSTALL?  When Dieter quoted the paragraph from INSTALL above, I could
> not even find that note at first glance, even though I knew what must be
> in there.

I didn't see it either.  I've now made it into a separate paragraph, and
made it slightly less obscure.

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      reply	other threads:[~2022-01-31 15:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-01-29 21:39 bug#53627: 29.0.50; Incorrect installation instructions worik
2022-01-29 21:48 ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2022-01-29 21:52   ` worik
2022-01-29 22:05     ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2022-01-30  6:27       ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-30  1:50     ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-01-30 22:54       ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2022-01-31 15:25         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]

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