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: Improve access to documentation in Info format Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2025 23:16:06 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87ser8c230.fsf@jeremybryant.net> <86ser87rut.fsf@gnu.org> <871pygyjqt.fsf_-_@gmail.com> <87zfl2mhoz.fsf@gmail.com> <878qruqm8w.fsf@gmail.com> <871pxk8o1e.fsf@gmail.com> <67788718.170a0220.116636.4451SMTPIN_ADDED_BROKEN@mx.google.com> <8734hzs6yy.fsf@gmail.com> 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="30650"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: bjorn.bidar@thaodan.de, suhailsingh247@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Suhail Singh Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 05 05:16:56 2025 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 1tUI4O-0007om-Ak for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 05 Jan 2025 05:16:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1tUI3d-0007Wj-Ff; Sat, 04 Jan 2025 23:16:09 -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 1tUI3b-0007WG-Qe for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Jan 2025 23:16:07 -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 1tUI3b-0003M8-Ax; Sat, 04 Jan 2025 23:16:07 -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=4WSgRboKwLktBBaI/aelYFcnruXQ5H4oxyjqDqt9NOo=; b=n5y5QC4fa0jW 1hITXWUJrFBZAIadRRBpl65f3LJcVnVG04H36ZsLuVM4Pp1cVA7JEAwr3Dh66vS7wRbb86n431kno erv43g7j3slCmJFnzrQpZwk2DeTZoas80vhWh9zEMRoqUUIA4+PzG+96dmoglecRG6Sg2MXnXA0j0 VE6W8PJbEYMsybigZyHl4vfWWGvG2S514BX0talrGUpgvkbq9wFclFbtp/EHt/eyZJFXb1hqntWHG x0HOlWAjhg96DuoicncgLHkZujnmRRpnyP9lx/qI2EaT4wQH4zGrWcuc7AKKtmW02zwuzL5qymB7o j1nDVaNVwv+3uVkpsQXCDg==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1tUI3a-0002n4-J2; Sat, 04 Jan 2025 23:16:06 -0500 In-Reply-To: <8734hzs6yy.fsf@gmail.com> (message from Suhail Singh on Fri, 03 Jan 2025 20:28:21 -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:327703 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. ]]] > While you provide other options, it's not clear why ELPA repositories > aren't a good fit. ELPA repositories are platform-agnostic and would > provide access to Info manuals wherever Emacs runs. Additionally, Emacs > provides one of the better Info readers, and implicit in the fact that > we are discussing this on emacs-devel is the assumption that the > intended users are Emacs users. Since GNU ELPA says it is for Lisp packages, I think it would be kludgy to store a different sort of data in that repo. It would be cleaer to make another separate repo using the same mechanism. That would be conceptualy clearer, and wouldn't be much additonal work. However, if we want these Info files to for use with standalone Info too, them it certainly needs to be a separate repo. -- 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)