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: Version naming Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 09:57:12 +0300 Message-ID: <838uk66jlj.fsf@gnu.org> References: <8738ap3qgq.fsf@trouble.defaultvalue.org> <20141016095111.631bf393@anarchist.wooz.org> <87wq80q6eh.fsf@trouble.defaultvalue.org> <87h9yuqnpc.fsf@trouble.defaultvalue.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1414133860 2491 80.91.229.3 (24 Oct 2014 06:57:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 06:57:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: barry@python.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Rob Browning Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 24 08:57:33 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 1XhYoT-0007x6-IA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Oct 2014 08:57:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45581 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XhYoT-0000vV-3s for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Oct 2014 02:57:29 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51167) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XhYoI-0000vO-QQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Oct 2014 02:57:25 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XhYoC-0005jr-OT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Oct 2014 02:57:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout28.012.net.il ([80.179.55.184]:38249) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XhYoC-0005jb-Fv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Oct 2014 02:57:12 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout28.012.net.il by mtaout28.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NDX00600SJ8BL00@mtaout28.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Oct 2014 09:55:07 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout28.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NDX00092SJVKQ50@mtaout28.012.net.il>; Fri, 24 Oct 2014 09:55:07 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <87h9yuqnpc.fsf@trouble.defaultvalue.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.184 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:175769 Archived-At: > From: Rob Browning > Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 20:08:15 -0500 > > One other thing that would be handy (if it's not already possible) is an > easy way to generate and install info pages for multiple major releases > (at least) at the same time. That's not an Emacs problem. This is a general problem with Texinfo: it doesn't support such installation. It's a long-standing missing feature, so please take it up with the Texinfo developers, so that perhaps in some not-so-distant future we might have a reliable solution for it. > In Debian, as a hack, we just store all the pages under > .../share/info/emacs-N/, and then mangle the START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY to > refer to emacs-N/foo instead of foo. i.e. > > * Emacs: (emacs-24/emacs). The extensible self-documenting text editor. > > This works somewhat, but I seem to recall there were some issues with > either the standalone reader or Emacs (though perhaps they've been > fixed). Yes, this kludge is well known, but it doesn't work very well, as I'm sure you know. Again, this is a Texinfo problem. Once Texinfo comes up with a solution that the stand-alone Info reader implements, I'm sure Emacs will follow suit in no time.