authors excludes the lisp manual.

authors excludes the lisp manual.

[Lute Kamstra]

Does anybody know why authors in lisp/emacs-lisp/authors.el doesn't
parse ChangeLogs in lispref/?  I'd like to change that.

Lute.

Re: authors excludes the lisp manual.

[Richard Stallman]

    Does anybody know why authors in lisp/emacs-lisp/authors.el doesn't
    parse ChangeLogs in lispref/?  I'd like to change that.

Perhaps it has not been updated since we put lispref/ into the Emacs
distribution.  Maybe there are other dirs it doesn't cover, too.
Could you check?

Re: authors excludes the lisp manual.

[Lute Kamstra]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

>     Does anybody know why authors in lisp/emacs-lisp/authors.el doesn't
>     parse ChangeLogs in lispref/?  I'd like to change that.
>
> Perhaps it has not been updated since we put lispref/ into the Emacs
> distribution.

It explicitly excludes lispref/:

,----
|     (dolist (log logs)
|       (when (and (string-match "ChangeLog\\(.[0-9]+\\)?$" log)
| 		 (not (string-match "/lispref/" log)))
| 	(message "Scanning %s..." log)
| 	(authors-scan-change-log log table)))
`----

I guess that lispref/ was put in Emacs' CVS before the 21.1 release so
that authors needed to exclude it as Emacs 21 wasn't distributed with
the lisp manual.

> Maybe there are other dirs it doesn't cover, too.  Could you check?

lispref/ is the only excluded dir.  Shall I commit the patch below?

Lute.


Index: lisp/emacs-lisp/authors.el
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/emacs/emacs/lisp/emacs-lisp/authors.el,v
retrieving revision 1.21
diff -c -r1.21 authors.el
*** lisp/emacs-lisp/authors.el	8 Apr 2005 11:54:57 -0000	1.21
--- lisp/emacs-lisp/authors.el	12 May 2005 14:14:48 -0000
***************
*** 1,6 ****
  ;;; authors.el --- utility for maintaining Emacs' AUTHORS file -*-coding: iso-2022-7bit;-*-
  
! ;; Copyright (C) 2000, 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
  
  ;; Author: Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
  ;; Maintainer: Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
--- 1,6 ----
  ;;; authors.el --- utility for maintaining Emacs' AUTHORS file -*-coding: iso-2022-7bit;-*-
  
! ;; Copyright (C) 2000, 2003, 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
  
  ;; Author: Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
  ;; Maintainer: Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
***************
*** 597,604 ****
      (unless (file-exists-p (expand-file-name "src/emacs.c" root))
        (error "Not the root directory of Emacs: %s" root))
      (dolist (log logs)
!       (when (and (string-match "ChangeLog\\(.[0-9]+\\)?$" log)
! 		 (not (string-match "/lispref/" log)))
  	(message "Scanning %s..." log)
  	(authors-scan-change-log log table)))
      (let ((els (authors-process-lines "find" root "-name" "*.el")))
--- 597,603 ----
      (unless (file-exists-p (expand-file-name "src/emacs.c" root))
        (error "Not the root directory of Emacs: %s" root))
      (dolist (log logs)
!       (when (string-match "ChangeLog\\(.[0-9]+\\)?$" log)
  	(message "Scanning %s..." log)
  	(authors-scan-change-log log table)))
      (let ((els (authors-process-lines "find" root "-name" "*.el")))

Re: authors excludes the lisp manual.

[David Kastrup]

Lute Kamstra <Lute.Kamstra.lists@xs4all.nl> writes:

> Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
>
>>     Does anybody know why authors in lisp/emacs-lisp/authors.el doesn't
>>     parse ChangeLogs in lispref/?  I'd like to change that.
>>
>> Perhaps it has not been updated since we put lispref/ into the Emacs
>> distribution.
>
> It explicitly excludes lispref/:
>
> ,----
> |     (dolist (log logs)
> |       (when (and (string-match "ChangeLog\\(.[0-9]+\\)?$" log)
> | 		 (not (string-match "/lispref/" log)))
> | 	(message "Scanning %s..." log)
> | 	(authors-scan-change-log log table)))
> `----
>
> I guess that lispref/ was put in Emacs' CVS before the 21.1 release so
> that authors needed to exclude it as Emacs 21 wasn't distributed with
> the lisp manual.

Could it have anything to do with the fact that the Lisp manual is not
distributed under the GPL?

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

Re: authors excludes the lisp manual.

[Richard Stallman]

    Could it have anything to do with the fact that the Lisp manual is not
    distributed under the GPL?

The specific license of any particular file should not matter for this.