On Sun, Apr 9, 2023, 3:11 PM Jonas Bernoulli <jonas@bernoul.li> wrote:

> Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:
> Why is :doc needed?  I think package-install simply runs makeinfo on all
> texi files, but of course it can rely on them being at the top-level.
> It might end up trying (and failing) to directly process gpl.texi and
> similar.  But still, cannot package-vc simply do that too?
>
> The value of :doc can also be an org file and we cannot just blindly try
> to transcode *all* org files to texi.


Is there anything like the info top-level directory node for org files?

My draft of unboxed (package management) has a provision for handling info
files found in an unpacked package, and dealing with texi files when there
is no info file is straightforward.  I have no idea what to do with a
random org file used for documenting a package to make it systematically
accessible to the package's user.

Lynn