From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Compiled files without sources???? Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 18:37:54 +0200 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <87y5zh2gbh.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <877hc7lzcc.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <8762rq7w7h.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <871v2en9n1.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <871v2eyece.fsf_-_@engster.org> <87r5ad91dm.fsf@ginnungagap.bsc.es> <87zkp1solk.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87wrk54pzp.fsf@ginnungagap.bsc.es> <87tyf7aw9b.fsf@engster.org> <871uxgyu0u.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87vcus3slm.fsf@engster.org> <87k4b4jv8p.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <877h7444uj.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87tya82mv5.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87pqktdpf6.fsf@tochka.ru> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1311957506 29545 80.91.229.12 (29 Jul 2011 16:38:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 16:38:26 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 29 18:38:21 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Qmq4r-0000KE-JV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Jul 2011 18:38:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57545 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qmq4r-0006S3-6H for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Jul 2011 12:38:21 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:43538) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qmq4o-0006Ra-NU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Jul 2011 12:38:19 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qmq4m-0005Kn-Uy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Jul 2011 12:38:18 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:53281) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qmq4m-0005KX-LK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Jul 2011 12:38:16 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Qmq4h-0000Eo-SB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Jul 2011 18:38:11 +0200 Original-Received: from p508ec785.dip.t-dialin.net ([80.142.199.133]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 29 Jul 2011 18:38:11 +0200 Original-Received: from dak by p508ec785.dip.t-dialin.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 29 Jul 2011 18:38:11 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p508ec785.dip.t-dialin.net X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:fQ6E1aAetAZqBD5QIZokdYjfT/U= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 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:142493 Archived-At: "Evgeny M. Zubok" writes: > Richard Stallman writes: > >> Could you be so kind as to tell me, concisely, what the situation is? >> Which files have been included, which sources are missing, and what >> version are they included in? > > Second this question. Some packages in ELPA provide only compiled > documentation (info, PostScript, PDF). The sources of documentation > exist only on upstream. Should the packages always provide the sources > of documentation in ELPA tree? Is it acceptable that the sources exist > somewhere on project's hosts? It might be worth taking a look at the structure of an XEmacs package. While the source of them in the XEmacs package tree has a different layout and contains additional structural information files relevant for generating the package, the compiled XEmacs package contains all relevant sources for the included material, in particular the Texinfo sources. -- David Kastrup