From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Nic Ferrier <nferrier@ferrier.me.uk>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ELPAing all the GNU manuals
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 12:37:26 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvtx3rsny8.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tx3st7cs.fsf@ferrier.me.uk> (Nic Ferrier's message of "Sun, 28 Sep 2014 10:36:03 +0100")
> All GNU manuals are free. Therefore they can be redistributed.
> All GNU manuals have texinfo (well, I'm only interested in the ones that
> do).
> Texinfo manuals can be turned into packages.
> Therefore we can put all GNU texinfo manuals into ELPA.
Yes, we can do that. But just because we can doesn't mean we should.
So what would be the benefits and the drawbacks?
Clearly, you have some reason to do that. Could you explain it to us?
Stefan "Preoccupied with keeping things up-to-date and in-sync"
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-28 16:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-28 9:36 ELPAing all the GNU manuals Nic Ferrier
2014-09-28 10:47 ` Alan Mackenzie
2014-09-28 11:06 ` David Kastrup
2014-09-28 11:10 ` Nic Ferrier
2014-09-28 12:12 ` joakim
2014-09-28 12:41 ` David Kastrup
2014-09-28 12:48 ` Alan Mackenzie
2014-09-28 12:49 ` Eric Brown
2014-09-28 16:37 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2014-09-28 18:17 ` Nic Ferrier
2014-09-28 20:58 ` Glenn Morris
2014-09-29 10:32 ` Thomas Koch
2014-09-29 16:51 ` Nic Ferrier
2014-09-29 20:49 ` Richard Stallman
2014-09-29 12:34 ` Matthias Meulien
2014-09-29 13:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-29 19:35 ` Matthias Meulien
2014-09-29 20:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-29 20:47 ` Richard Stallman
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