From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Proposal: Include C Manual from RMS in Emacs git, and/or release Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2024 00:05:13 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87ser8c230.fsf@jeremybryant.net> <86ser87rut.fsf@gnu.org> <86cyia4503.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="4883"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: jb@jeremybryant.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 05 06:06:08 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 1tJ43w-0000zA-F9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 05 Dec 2024 06:06:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1tJ43D-0005JZ-NT; Thu, 05 Dec 2024 00:05:19 -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 1tJ43A-0005Is-Jr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Dec 2024 00:05:16 -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 1tJ438-0007EC-Dc; Thu, 05 Dec 2024 00:05:14 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=nTvW/sIjdJF1cagJzIbQwJRPNuYE7rN2xwIjcHeZ3pg=; b=bSUMDdiJVZp9 3XOQLxND7dOfsPvEPZpJJN/OH3esvv3a/mw1uGUDfo0S1n4o1Y6VjQJd5svkOey6EmkQIuOr0SX+i udLC1AsgUfFq6qFrJsU5ndoXf3PSEAqYWla9SdLF2LXMMPUnxRIGD0iKU0kj7+3gThpxNYGOZXPR+ 3yxYZc6rrOZ1bq0+ciw+UZ5CHuAsrYQDDm0eEvF+paTT1X3sr+fCegT/rYDSJFOJ5bAc3Wccd5T7o we6Cpp7k7FcIczxuKJwOLRuMOLa97j20zv2yLyLG345Thd7p6+L7quqMNggdYFOaHW6t8TLYhuRU3 6vGLzwW4tWjlqhGSH0r7Hw==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1tJ437-0000Az-M2; Thu, 05 Dec 2024 00:05:13 -0500 In-Reply-To: <86cyia4503.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Mon, 02 Dec 2024 14:57:16 +0200) 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:326058 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > 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? 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. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)