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
next prev parent 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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