From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: info/ directory in CVS Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2007 15:34:21 +0300 Message-ID: References: <13lkcvcgr5.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1186144479 31712 80.91.229.12 (3 Aug 2007 12:34:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 12:34:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rgm@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org, karl@freefriends.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 03 14:34:36 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IGwMV-0007CV-0G for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Aug 2007 14:34:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IGwMU-0004Ca-Dl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Aug 2007 08:34:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IGwMQ-0004B8-81 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Aug 2007 08:34:30 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IGwMO-00048E-Cx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Aug 2007 08:34:29 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IGwMO-000483-6u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Aug 2007 08:34:28 -0400 Original-Received: from romy.inter.net.il ([213.8.233.24]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IGwMM-0001lJ-GB; Fri, 03 Aug 2007 08:34:26 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-83-130-197-78.inter.net.il [83.130.197.78]) by romy.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3-GA) with ESMTP id INP58725 (AUTH halo1); Fri, 3 Aug 2007 15:34:18 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: (message from Richard Stallman on Thu, 02 Aug 2007 23:38:27 -0400) X-Detected-Kernel: FreeBSD 4.7-5.2 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.4) (2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:75988 Archived-At: > From: Richard Stallman > 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.