From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ELPAing all the GNU manuals
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 14:41:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h9zrlxws.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m338bcosee.fsf@exodia.verona.se
joakim@verona.se writes:
> Nic Ferrier <nferrier@ferrier.me.uk> writes:
>
>> David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
>>
>>> Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:
>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> Uh, I don't _want_ my info manuals to be up to date. I want them to
>>> correspond to the software version I have installed. I have nothing to
>>> gain from using copy&paste of some code from a manual that is not yet
>>> supported by my software.
>>
>> I've just realized I am asking for permission and I should just be
>> doing.
>>
>>
>> But here's one reason why things do go into ELPA. General negativity
>> being almost always the first reaction on this list.
>
> So, I will play good cop.
>
> To me it sounds like a cool idea.
>
> Apart from just being good cop, I see some actual benefits.
>
> There is precedence in the Java world for this sort of thing, and there
> its pretty useful.
>
> In the Emacs world, we would gain increased visibility of the GNU
> world from within Emacs. ELPA browser frontends will also be nicer.
>
> Now over to the bad cops...
Uh, you just smoked all the confiscated weed. Now what?
--
David Kastrup
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-28 12:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-28 9:36 ELPAing all the GNU manuals Nic Ferrier
2014-09-28 10:47 ` Alan Mackenzie
2014-09-28 11:06 ` David Kastrup
2014-09-28 11:10 ` Nic Ferrier
2014-09-28 12:12 ` joakim
2014-09-28 12:41 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2014-09-28 12:48 ` Alan Mackenzie
2014-09-28 12:49 ` Eric Brown
2014-09-28 16:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-09-28 18:17 ` Nic Ferrier
2014-09-28 20:58 ` Glenn Morris
2014-09-29 10:32 ` Thomas Koch
2014-09-29 16:51 ` Nic Ferrier
2014-09-29 20:49 ` Richard Stallman
2014-09-29 12:34 ` Matthias Meulien
2014-09-29 13:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-29 19:35 ` Matthias Meulien
2014-09-29 20:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-29 20:47 ` Richard Stallman
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