From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rob Browning Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs cvs newbie problems Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 00:40:50 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <87n0qipk4d.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> References: <200209160002.g8G02Eb06228@f7.net> <20020916014132.GA27413@gnu.org> <87n0qi1xzy.fsf@wesley.springies.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1032154929 11249 127.0.0.1 (16 Sep 2002 05:42:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 05:42:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Miles Bader , Karl Berry , rms@gnu.org, hattons@speakeasy.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17qoe7-0002vI-00 for ; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 07:42:07 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17qpHJ-0006i3-00 for ; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 08:22:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17qoeL-0004ma-00; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 01:42:21 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17qocw-0004SR-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 01:40:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17qocu-0004SE-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 01:40:53 -0400 Original-Received: from [66.64.4.228] (helo=defaultvalue.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17qoct-0004S8-00; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 01:40:52 -0400 Original-Received: from raven.i.defaultvalue.org (raven.i.defaultvalue.org [192.168.1.7]) by defaultvalue.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34F61B1B2; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 00:40:51 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by raven.i.defaultvalue.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2F42A2CAA; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 00:40:50 -0500 (CDT) Original-To: Alan Shutko In-Reply-To: <87n0qi1xzy.fsf@wesley.springies.com> (Alan Shutko's message of "Sun, 15 Sep 2002 22:14:57 -0400") Original-Lines: 24 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.2 (i386-pc-linux-gnu) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:7939 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:7939 Alan Shutko writes: > I don't think so. Last I read, the plan was to get rid of the > debian install-info in favor of some other type of system, allowing > GNU install-info to be installed, but not using it for anything. And there's still the problem we've never quite resolved, but made some progress on from time to time regarding how to handle installing info pages for multiple versions of emacs (or anything else -- autoconf, automake, etc.) at the same time. I'm still planning to revisit this when I can, but anyone else who is interested is welcome to work on it. Fixing things so that each separate tree of info pages is internally self consistent (say the emacs-19 tree and the emacs-21 tree) probably isn't too tall an order, but deciding what to do about cross references from other packages (or sets of pages like elisp.info) looks to be non-trivial. -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org, @linuxdevel.com, and @debian.org Previously @cs.utexas.edu GPG=1C58 8B2C FB5E 3F64 EA5C 64AE 78FE E5FE F0CB A0AD