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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: rms@gnu.org, karl@freefriends.org
Cc: rgm@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: info/ directory in CVS
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2007 15:34:21 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <uwswcbxv6.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1IGnzf-0001ti-E7@fencepost.gnu.org> (message from Richard Stallman on Thu, 02 Aug 2007 23:38:27 -0400)

> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> CC: eliz@gnu.org, rgm@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2007 23:38:27 -0400
> 
>     I hope someday we can fix this limitation so that `dir' can really be
>     auto-generated.
> 
> That requires some other way to specify the right order of manuals.
> What could it be?
> 
> We could let each manual specify a priority.  I hope that each program
> won't specify the highest possible.

install-info could preserve the order of existing entries.  The
problem is with new entries: for them, there's no easy alternative I
can think of that would produce a consistent ordering.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-03 12:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-01 17:21 info/ directory in CVS Glenn Morris
2007-08-02  3:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-08-02  6:10   ` Glenn Morris
2007-08-02 16:27   ` Stefan Monnier
2007-08-03  3:38     ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-03 12:34       ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2007-08-03 11:57     ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-08-03 12:48       ` Miles Bader
2007-08-03 22:01         ` Richard Stallman

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