From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: ELPAing all the GNU manuals Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 10:47:36 +0000 Message-ID: <20140928104735.GB3157@acm.acm> References: <87tx3st7cs.fsf@ferrier.me.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1411901631 31035 80.91.229.3 (28 Sep 2014 10:53:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 10:53:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Nic Ferrier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 28 12:53:44 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XYC6q-0001Za-7Y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Sep 2014 12:53:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59172 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XYC6p-0002JO-UP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Sep 2014 06:53:43 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47116) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XYC6W-0002Iq-2c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Sep 2014 06:53:31 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XYC6O-0004sG-IR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Sep 2014 06:53:24 -0400 Original-Received: from colin.muc.de ([193.149.48.1]:50167 helo=mail.muc.de) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XYC6O-0004rx-9d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Sep 2014 06:53:16 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 3509 invoked by uid 3782); 28 Sep 2014 10:53:10 -0000 Original-Received: from acm.muc.de (pD951AB19.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [217.81.171.25]) by colin.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Sun, 28 Sep 2014 12:53:09 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 4111 invoked by uid 1000); 28 Sep 2014 10:47:36 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87tx3st7cs.fsf@ferrier.me.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.12 (Macallan) X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: FreeBSD 8.x X-Received-From: 193.149.48.1 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:174762 Archived-At: Hi, Nic. On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 10:36:03AM +0100, Nic Ferrier wrote: > Should I do this? > 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. > I'd be happy to work out a script for doing it since I am going to do > pretty much the same for my HTML info reader. > Opinions please. Do you have a good reason for this exercise? Why bother? What does it gain anybody? You'll get one more non-authoritative place to obtain all these manuals, and from this place they're not going to be up to date, unless you figure out some mechanism of keeping them up to date. Keeping them up to date is going to be a lot of work. > Nic -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).