From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Jan D." Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Gtk patch version 3, part 1 Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2003 14:11:12 +0100 (CET) Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <200301041432.h04EWje2032078@stubby.bodenonline.com> References: <200301040255.UAA16436@eel.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1041688010 18577 80.91.224.249 (4 Jan 2003 13:46:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2003 13:46:50 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18UodV-0004pV-00 for ; Sat, 04 Jan 2003 14:46:49 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18Uogc-0005ur-00 for ; Sat, 04 Jan 2003 14:50:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18UoWJ-00017C-06 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sat, 04 Jan 2003 08:39:23 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18UoVV-0000vb-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Jan 2003 08:38:33 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18UoUq-0000Y6-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Jan 2003 08:37:54 -0500 Original-Received: from stubby.bodenonline.com ([193.201.16.94]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18UoUM-0008N1-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Jan 2003 08:37:22 -0500 Original-Received: from accessno42.bodenonline.com (IDENT:root@accessno42.bodenonline.com [193.201.16.44])h04EWje2032078 for ; Sat, 4 Jan 2003 15:32:49 +0100 In-Reply-To: <200301040255.UAA16436@eel.dms.auburn.edu> "from Luc Teirlinck at Jan 3, 2003 08:55:12 pm" Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:10465 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:10465 > > I do not understand. Why would it need to be rewritten? Is GTK and > its documentation free software? If we want it in the superior > Texinfo format, of course, but what if we are (reluctantly) willing to > use the html files as they are? That is all the URL would provide > anyway. The document does not seem to be that huge. I took a look at > it. Over a slow internet connection. Plenty of "10k read stalled". > Forever. Interrupt transfer. Try again... More of the same. No fun. That is what I mean, rewritten to texinfo. I think this is a must for Emacs documentation. > Anyway, why not just include it in the Emacs distribution? There is the problem of keeping it up to date. I know the format for GTK resources changed a bit from 1.2 to 2.0 (added font_name), I haven't looked if 2.2 has any changes. Who knows what 2.4 will look like? Jan D.