From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Proposal: Include C Manual from RMS in Emacs git, and/or release Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2024 08:27:59 +0200 Message-ID: <86y10uy780.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87ser8c230.fsf@jeremybryant.net> <86ser87rut.fsf@gnu.org> <86cyia4503.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="29321"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: jb@jeremybryant.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 05 07:28:34 2024 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1tJ5Lm-0007UY-Fn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 05 Dec 2024 07:28:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1tJ5LO-0002pp-WD; Thu, 05 Dec 2024 01:28:11 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1tJ5LM-0002pc-FH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Dec 2024 01:28:08 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1tJ5LM-0006jA-7S; Thu, 05 Dec 2024 01:28:08 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=q+4fYVamdouiuW/w1nlChFYg/gVGGz1T8GdsGZ4mjCc=; b=dHKgic28qyb1 8troZH/dswuShzEdQCewgGGX+sO7yPPd8CnQ+1rzTfWtwzWGAZ8LGnII1o3UTRr6b4SiT15Arqc2l 1Ujnqkhfi86YScw/297N9RYSTn/3j4Wl9t53gSfP9EZ+GiSI62ZVOCbRctxm95MRuvj+cz/VfLAJf GJ+lxgAToj3FCIYPFiLU+S9BBji7R7CTb4I4GGxZYqVRhNtMrZlLzkJkXE4m06idKTRYJElYirtMh QVcNTnrS/R6q/EvNfWK+RbunBsFLOrKG35Kd7yveUu3GkZKD5suHVTULBCgyekU0Nq/FMN61eAWbJ lTjGEXanRQwoxO2psEvFqg==; In-Reply-To: (message from Richard Stallman on Thu, 05 Dec 2024 00:05:13 -0500) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:326068 Archived-At: > From: Richard Stallman > Cc: jb@jeremybryant.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2024 00:05:13 -0500 > > > > As a general design principle, it doesn't seem to make sense to > > > include all GNU manuals in the Emacs distribution merely because they > > > are useful manuals. The idea was to relese them separately and have > > > them installed separately into a combined info tree. > > > > > > Why is that not working? What needs to be changed in some GNU/Linux > > > distros? > > > It does work in general. However, some manuals, which don't belong to > > any project in particular, are largely unknown to exist. > > Have you got any ideas for the good ways to inform the community about them? Not immediately, no. I suggest to discuss that with the Texinfo developers, since they distribute some files that are supposed to reference all the GNU manuals in existence. > The two > > prominent examples I have are for some reason both related to the C > > language: gnu-c-manual.info and c.info. The latter is not even > > mentioned in dir-example file that the Texinfo project distributes. > > What is c.info? I don't recall hearing about it. It's your "Introduction to the C language" manual.