Re: ELPAing all the GNU manuals

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

joakim@verona.se writes:

> Nic Ferrier <nferrier@ferrier.me.uk> writes:
>
>> David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
>>
>>> Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:
>>>
>>>> You'll get one more non-authoritative place to obtain all these
>>>> manuals, and from this place they're not going to be up to date,
>>>> unless you figure out some mechanism of keeping them up to date.
>>>> Keeping them up to date is going to be a lot of work.
>>>
>>> Uh, I don't _want_ my info manuals to be up to date.  I want them to
>>> correspond to the software version I have installed.  I have nothing to
>>> gain from using copy&paste of some code from a manual that is not yet
>>> supported by my software.
>>
>> I've just realized I am asking for permission and I should just be
>> doing.
>>
>>
>> But here's one reason why things do go into ELPA. General negativity
>> being almost always the first reaction on this list.
>
> So, I will play good cop.
>
> To me it sounds like a cool idea.
>
> Apart from just being good cop, I see some actual benefits.
>
> There is precedence in the Java world for this sort of thing, and there
> its pretty useful.
>
> In the Emacs world, we would gain increased visibility of the GNU
> world from within Emacs. ELPA browser frontends will also be nicer.
>
> Now over to the bad cops...

Uh, you just smoked all the confiscated weed.  Now what?

-- 
David Kastrup