From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
Cc: xemacs-design@xemacs.org
Subject: Re: INFO on add-ons
Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2002 10:08:28 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6213.80333691395$1030928984@news.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D728E82.8000808@cox.net> ("David A. Cobb"'s message of "Sun, 01 Sep 2002 18:02:42 -0400")
>>>>> "David" == David A Cobb <superbiskit@cox.net> writes:
David> Would nearly everyone agree that folks who provide/maintain
David> packages or FSF Emacs add-ons ought to consider it a
David> professional obligation
_Obligation_? Not.
Of course good documentation is one of the policy goals of all free
software projects. But the users who volunteer their time and
intellectual property have the right to set their own priorities.
David> to provide an Info source covering their software, and that
David> any installation process ought to support this by merging
David> these (INSTALL-INFO) with the Emacs Info.Dir?
That's a maintenance nightmare, and often impossible on real OSes
where not everyone is root. What's wrong with the current (XEmacs
only?) system which automatically generates Dir from the info-path?
All this requires is adding a specially-marked menu description to
each texinfo source.
--
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University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN
My nostalgia for Icon makes me forget about any of the bad things. I don't
have much nostalgia for Perl, so its faults I remember. Scott Gilbert c.l.py
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[not found] <3D728E82.8000808@cox.net>
2002-09-01 22:16 ` INFO on add-ons Alex Schroeder
2002-09-02 23:49 ` David A. Cobb
[not found] ` <3D73F919.5010706@cox.net>
2002-09-03 22:56 ` Alex Schroeder
2002-09-04 0:48 ` Alex Schroeder
2002-09-04 1:39 ` Miles Bader
2002-09-04 4:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-09-04 5:02 ` Miles Bader
2002-09-04 5:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-09-04 5:14 ` Miles Bader
2002-09-04 13:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-09-04 13:34 ` Miles Bader
2002-09-05 4:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-09-05 12:09 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2002-09-05 14:52 ` Robert J. Chassell
2002-09-04 22:40 ` Alex Schroeder
2002-09-05 2:46 ` Richard Stallman
2002-09-07 7:44 ` Pavel Janík
2002-09-04 4:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-09-04 12:13 ` Robert J. Chassell
2002-09-04 4:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-09-02 1:08 ` Stephen J. Turnbull [this message]
2002-09-02 14:53 ` Richard Stallman
2002-09-02 23:59 ` David A. Cobb
[not found] ` <87ptvxxkoj.fsf@tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>
2002-09-02 1:36 ` Miles Bader
[not found] ` <buok7m5jhpm.fsf@mcspd15.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp>
2002-09-02 4:51 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
[not found] ` <87fzwtxad9.fsf@tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>
2002-09-02 5:04 ` Miles Bader
[not found] ` <buoelcdj82q.fsf@mcspd15.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp>
2002-09-02 6:03 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2002-09-02 23:47 ` David A. Cobb
[not found] ` <3D73F89D.2070106@cox.net>
2002-09-03 4:16 ` "Extreme Documentation" [was: INFO on add-ons] Stephen J. Turnbull
2002-09-03 15:49 ` David A. Cobb
2002-09-03 19:05 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2002-09-04 3:51 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2002-09-04 5:58 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2002-09-03 13:26 ` INFO on add-ons Richard Stallman
2002-09-03 15:43 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2002-09-03 16:30 ` Robert J. Chassell
2002-09-03 17:33 ` Henrik Enberg
2002-09-03 17:58 ` Miles Bader
2002-09-03 20:54 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-09-03 20:54 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-09-02 23:40 ` David A. Cobb
[not found] ` <3D73F6D1.7010002@cox.net>
2002-09-03 4:42 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2002-09-03 15:39 ` David A. Cobb
2002-09-03 16:23 ` Robert J. Chassell
2002-09-03 22:23 ` David A. Cobb
2002-09-04 1:18 ` Miles Bader
2002-09-04 3:39 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2002-09-04 3:46 ` Miles Bader
2002-09-04 7:23 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2002-09-05 2:17 ` Karl Eichwalder
2002-09-04 14:38 ` Robert J. Chassell
2002-09-04 17:42 ` Ville Skyttä
2002-09-04 22:14 ` Robert J. Chassell
2002-09-05 2:53 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2002-09-05 13:37 ` Robert J. Chassell
2002-09-06 2:40 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2002-09-06 12:18 ` Robert J. Chassell
2002-09-06 13:30 ` Miles Bader
2002-09-06 20:03 ` Richard Stallman
2002-09-05 13:54 ` Robert J. Chassell
2002-09-05 20:16 ` Ville Skyttä
2002-09-04 15:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-09-04 17:12 ` Robert J. Chassell
2002-09-04 18:22 ` Ville Skyttä
2002-09-05 1:48 ` Miles Bader
2002-09-05 2:32 ` Karl Eichwalder
2002-09-05 4:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-09-05 6:00 ` Karl Eichwalder
2002-09-05 13:25 ` Robert J. Chassell
2002-09-05 4:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-09-05 4:22 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2002-09-05 18:02 ` Richard Stallman
2002-09-06 1:19 ` Miles Bader
2002-09-06 20:03 ` Richard Stallman
2002-09-04 4:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-09-04 12:29 ` Robert J. Chassell
2002-09-05 2:46 ` Richard Stallman
2002-09-02 23:22 ` David A. Cobb
2002-09-01 22:02 David A. Cobb
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