From: Ivan Shmakov <ivan@siamics.net>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Please post older versions of GNU Emacs manuals on the web
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 2016 06:33:49 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8760zbw4s2.fsf@violet.siamics.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ade8e79f-0675-4bb2-8874-d83a7fa9f395@default> (Drew Adams's message of "Sat, 2 Jan 2016 09:19:04 -0800 (PST)")
>>>>> Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
[…]
> Sure, the Wayback Machine is a great resource, and the Internet
> Archive responsible for it is a great place to visit in San
> Francisco.
> But telling users to look to Internet archives (or to just google for
> “defadvice emacs”) does not really answer my question of “Why not?”
> or respond to my proposal.
I see no reason we can’t do both: we can tell the users (or,
rather, their UAs) to use the Wayback machine by providing links
to the archived pages at http://gnu.org/s/emacs/manual/ – as
well as all the Emacs documentation pages referenced there.
With some effort, we could probably even link to the
documentation for specific Emacs versions from there.
> IMO we should offer Emacs users easy online access to the manuals for
> older Emacs versions, the same way we offer them easy access to the
> recent manuals and to both the recent and older versions of the
> software.
> This is the least we could do to help users and show them respect.
> It should not be easier to find information about older releases of
> Oracle, Apple, Microsoft, or IBM software than it is to find such
> info for Emacs.
I tend to agree that providing documentation for at least the
latest releases of all the major versions is a well-established
practice in the field, and I know of no reason why GNU in
general – and not just Emacs – can’t follow it.
--
FSF associate member #7257 http://am-1.org/~ivan/ … 3013 B6A0 230E 334A
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[not found] ` <<83a8onc3vc.fsf@gnu.org>
2016-01-02 17:19 ` Please post older versions of GNU Emacs manuals on the web Drew Adams
2016-01-03 6:33 ` Ivan Shmakov [this message]
[not found] ` <<E1aFVL3-0000Fj-8h@fencepost.gnu.org>
2016-01-02 23:16 ` Drew Adams
2016-01-02 16:46 Drew Adams
2016-01-02 17:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-02 17:11 ` John Wiegley
2016-01-02 17:19 ` Drew Adams
2016-01-04 3:15 ` Richard Stallman
2016-01-02 23:11 ` Richard Stallman
2016-01-03 3:57 ` John Wiegley
2016-01-03 4:09 ` Drew Adams
2016-01-03 4:18 ` raman
2016-01-03 10:55 ` David Kastrup
2016-01-03 16:34 ` Drew Adams
2016-01-03 2:07 ` Xue Fuqiao
2016-01-03 3:14 ` raman
2016-01-03 3:32 ` Drew Adams
2016-01-03 7:08 ` Teemu Likonen
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