From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: INFO on add-ons Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2002 10:08:28 +0900 Organization: The XEmacs Project Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <6213.80333691395$1030928984@news.gmane.org> References: <3D728E82.8000808@cox.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1030928984 30123 127.0.0.1 (2 Sep 2002 01:09:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 01:09:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: xemacs-design@xemacs.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17lfip-0007pk-00 for ; Mon, 02 Sep 2002 03:09:43 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17lgGn-0006d7-00 for ; Mon, 02 Sep 2002 03:44:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17lfkJ-00074h-00; Sun, 01 Sep 2002 21:11:15 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17lfih-0006rY-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Sep 2002 21:09:35 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17lfie-0006rM-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Sep 2002 21:09:34 -0400 Original-Received: from tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.98.109]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17lfie-0006rI-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Sep 2002 21:09:32 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ident=steve) by tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17lfhf-0005YA-00 for ; Mon, 02 Sep 2002 10:08:31 +0900 Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <3D728E82.8000808@cox.net> ("David A. Cobb"'s message of "Sun, 01 Sep 2002 18:02:42 -0400") Original-Lines: 27 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) XEmacs/21.4 (Informed Management, i686-pc-linux) X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.61 Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:7304 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:7304 >>>>> "David" == David A Cobb 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. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp 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