Re: [ELPA] New package c-intro-and-ref -- was Re: Proposal: Include C Manual from RMS in Emacs git, and/or release

[Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Jeremy Bryant <jb@jeremybryant.net>
>> Cc: rms@gnu.org,  emacs-devel@gnu.org, Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
>> Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2024 23:03:42 +0000
>> 
>> I have created a prototype ELPA package, comments welcome?
>
> Are we providing packages that include only Info manuals, which
> document stuff that is not specific to Emacs?  Because I don't see how
> it would be a good idea to have this as an ELPA package.
>
> But if we do accept such packages on ELPA, then I have 2 additional
> similar suggestions:
>
>   . Git manual in Info format
>   . Python 3 manual in Info format

It would also make sense to make the Emacs manuals available for easy
download, as distributions like Debian do not include these by default.
Whether we distribute these by piggy-backing on package.el or have a
separate installer that could be distributed on ELPA is a different
matter, but it would be useful to have an index of already existing
manuals that would be interesting regardless of their relation to Emacs.

>> Current Package name, proposed for ELPA: c-intro-and-ref
>> This matches the existing manual distribution.
>> Perhaps a name such as: gnu-c-manual
>
> That'd be wrong, since this manual doesn't describe GNU C, it
> describes the C language in general.  (There's a separate GNU C
> manual, btw.)