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From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: Emacs Development <Emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Accessible "building from source" instructions
Date: Sun, 26 May 2019 13:18:26 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2bf01117-4801-732c-46cc-6cf559f32df3@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3a823822-394c-4761-dd4a-fa7353107346@cs.ucla.edu>

On 26.05.2019 11:50, Paul Eggert wrote:

> Although I did that, I don't recommend using that URL as it's updated 
> only irregularly. Yes, this is bad, but unfortunately savannah.gnu.org 
> is still requiring CVS to update its website pages. Hardly any developer 
> knows how to use CVS any more. Although I was a heavy CVS user two 
> decades ago, I've forgotten too, and I have no idea why savannah is 
> still stuck on CVS.

Thanks. That's unfortunate.

> Anyway, to get back to the topic at hand, I suggest using this URL:
> 
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/plain/CONTRIBUTE
> 
> Similarly, for INSTALL.REPO, I suggest:
> 
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/plain/INSTALL.REPO

OK. But what I'd really like is *one* page I can link to.

The context: there is this README.md file (sort of official webpage for 
js2-mode), and it would really be better if the words "build from 
source" were a hyperlink to something helpful:

https://github.com/mooz/js2-mode/blob/master/README.md



  reply	other threads:[~2019-05-26 10:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-25 23:34 Accessible "building from source" instructions Dmitry Gutov
2019-05-26  0:25 ` T.V Raman
2019-05-26  8:19   ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-05-26  1:30 ` Paul Eggert
2019-05-26  8:20   ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-05-26  8:50     ` Paul Eggert
2019-05-26 10:18       ` Dmitry Gutov [this message]
2019-05-26 14:46       ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-26 20:08         ` Paul Eggert
2019-05-27  2:29           ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-27 16:59             ` Paul Eggert
2019-05-27 17:12               ` web pages in CVS [was Re: Accessible "building from source" instructions] Glenn Morris
2019-05-27 17:24               ` Accessible "building from source" instructions Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-27 20:17               ` Richard Stallman
2019-05-27 20:11           ` Richard Stallman
2019-05-26  9:23   ` Andreas Schwab
2019-05-26 10:01     ` Paul Eggert
2019-05-26 10:54       ` Andreas Schwab
2019-05-26 20:11         ` Paul Eggert
2019-05-26 20:19           ` Andreas Schwab
2019-05-27  4:55             ` Paul Eggert
2019-05-26  2:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-26  8:25   ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-05-26 16:36     ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-26 22:10       ` Dmitry Gutov

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