From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: On being web-friendly and why info must die Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 20:01:23 -0800 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <548A6893.4020403@cs.ucla.edu> References: <20141205123549.GA29331@thyrsus.com> <87ppbqb6s1.fsf@gnu.org> <87388mme16.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> <87a92u86wv.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1418356933 17019 80.91.229.3 (12 Dec 2014 04:02:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 04:02:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: esr@thyrsus.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?UTF-8?B?THVkb3ZpYyBDb3VydMOocw==?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 12 05:02:06 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XzHQZ-0008Tr-5N for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 05:02:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55384 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XzHQY-0004p6-KR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 23:02:02 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51114) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XzHQG-0004of-1T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 23:01:51 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XzHQ5-0000ER-HX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 23:01:43 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.62]:60004) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XzHQ5-0000EF-CM; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 23:01:33 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 459D0A60116; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 20:01:32 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at smtp.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id GUpS75pUg6o7; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 20:01:23 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (pool-71-177-17-123.lsanca.dsl-w.verizon.net [71.177.17.123]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 932C839E801D; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 20:01:23 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.3.0 In-Reply-To: <87a92u86wv.fsf@gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 131.179.128.62 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:179862 Archived-At: Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote: > if replacing Texinfo and/or Info results in loss of functionality > at all, that=E2=80=99s a showstopper. That's too strict. We should not insist that the new documentation syste= m must=20 have every single feature that the old one does. It should suffice if th= e new=20 system is significantly better than the old one overall, enough to justif= y the=20 hassle of switching.